Essays in Tai linguistics / edited by M.R. Kalaya Tingsabadh, and Arthur S. Abramson and Haskins Laboratories
Imprint
Bangkok : Chulalongkorn University Press, 2001
Descript
x, 285 p. ; 26 cm
CONTENT
Phonetics and phonology: States of the Glottis of Thai voiceless stops and Affricates -- Stability of distinctive vowel lenngth in Tai -- Poetics: Thai: a metrical analysis -- Limericks and rhyme in Thai -- Syntax and semantics; Is there wh-movement in Thai? -- Identification of word classes in Thai -- Devices for forming entity-denoting in Thai Sing Language -- Historical and comparative linguistics -- Grammaticalization and Tai syntactic change -- Hypothesis of a new branch for the Tai languages -- Tai-kadai peoples of Hainan island and their languages -- Tones geography -- Study of lexical variation in Seven Zhuang dialects -- Varia: Componential analysis of kinship Terms in Thai -- Frangs and Siamese: a brief history of learning Thai
SUBJECT
Tai languages
Thai language
Linguistics
languages
LOCATION
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STATUS
Thailand and ASEAN Information Center (6th Floor) : Chula Collection