The purposes of this study are 1) to subcategorize the meanings of được ‘acquire’ 2) to analyze semantic and syntactic properties of the verb 3) to study the relationship between these meanings and 4) to analyze the cognitive processes for meaning... extension of the verb. This study is based on the cognitive semantic approach. The theory of Principled Polysemy is applied as criteria for meaning sub-categorization and the theory of Four Categories of Polysemy is used in order to analyze the process

units, so they do not allow syntactic operations, namely intervention, modification, coordination and alteration to affect their lexical status. In contrast, NMCCs have slightly higher TTR and can be affected by syntactic operations. NMCCs in Thai..., semantic properties and thematic roles of the head noun, complexity of constituents, rhetorical stylistics and tones of the utterance. In contrast, predicate-argument structure, the ellipsis, contexts and formal stylistics have nothing to do

This thesis aims to (1) study the changes in syntactic positions of templatic and periphrastic maṣdars from the 19th century to the present (1876-2011), (2) study the changes in the collocation of semantic verb types with templatic and periphrastic... that the three types of maṣdars can occur as subjects, objects, postpositions, subject complements and genitives. However, only in the objects and the postpositions did the three types of maṣdars occur in all the seven periods of time. For semantics verb type