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

, and cognitive linguistic points of view. This study primarily focuses on the form /tôŋ/ in Thai, which constitutes an interesting instance of polyfunctionality as its counterparts are found to be prevalent in the Southeast Asian languages. However..., it is not known how the multiple functions of /tôŋ/ are historically related as well as conceptually associated. To answer this research question, this study is thus aimed to analyze the syntax and semantics of /tôŋ/, trace the path and direction of its