The purpose of this study is to investigate the number, the usage and the change in usage of classifiers in the Ratanakosin period dating from Rama I to Rama VIII. This analysis is based on the data found in various government do cuments... and academic books. The result of the analysis is that there are 494 classifiers in the Thai language used during the period from Rama I to Rama VIII. The can be divided into two types: general classifiers, and classifiers of measurement and estimation

The study aims at 1) analyzing the word classes and the grammatical meanings of /dûaj/ in Thai from Sukhothai period until present and 2) examining the factors and the mechanisms attributed to the change of /dûaj/ in the light of grammaticalization... theory. The data was divided into 6 groups according to 6 periods: 1) Sukhothai Period, 2) Ayudhaya Period - Thonburi Period, 3) King Rama I - King Rama III of Ratanakosin Period, 4) King Rama IV - King Rama V of Ratanakosin Period, 5) King Rama VI - King

This thesis is a diachronic study of /laeaew/, /yuu/ and /yuulaeaew/ from the Sukhothai period to the present. The data elicited is based on published documents between 1826 B.E. 2546 B.E. According to the study, it is found that the functions... of /laeaew/ are not identical in the 6 different periods. In the Sukhothai period /laeaew/ had 3 functions that is verbs, perfective aspect markers and conjunctions and the 4 new functions{7f2014}idiomatic phrases functioned as adverbs, idiomatic phrases

This research is a diachronic study of discourse connectors in Thai. The discourse connectors elicited from published documents dated from the Sukhothai period to the present are examined in terms of their function, structure, as well as meaning..., conclusive, causal, and adversative. The sample document of the Sukhothai period can be devided into two types of discourse : narrative and procedural. Fifty connectors are found in the document. These 50 connectors are of eleven types of the micro level

This thesis aimed to study affixation of Khmer in pre-angkorian and angkorian period and to study the meaning and grammatical function of Khmer in both periods. The results found that there are the different affixation of Khmer in those periods..., they are 1) in pre-angkorian period, it is found that there are 21 prefixes and 7 infixes, while there are 26 prefixes and 9 infixes are found in angkorian period. It could be explained that the prefixes in pre-angkorian period are found less than those

This thesis aims to study and survey the spacing in the Thai writing at the present time, and to trance the development of the spacing from the Sukhothai period up to the reign of King Rama VIII of the Ratanakosin period. The data were collected... be accompanied by a small circle which is used to separate words or paragraphs and also to precede an important message. Besides, it was used to mark passages in Thai version from those in Pali version. In the Ayuthaya period, this symbol was still in use

The purpose of this thesis is to compare and contrast the usage of conjunctions in the Sukhothai, Ayudhya and Ratanakosin periods. The investigation is based on data obtained from inscriptions, ancient documents and contemporary textual materials..., including a number of academic articles. After a close study, the results of this research are as follows:- First, the conjunctions used in the Sukhothai, Ayudh-ya and contemporary Ratanakosin period have both similar and different usages. Some conj[u

This study investigates personal pronouns during the Sukhothai period, the Ayutthaya period, the early Rattanakosin period (King Rama I-III) and the middle Rattanakosin period (King Rama IV-VII) with regard to their forms, their usage..., and the process of change that occurred in their usage. The study finds that a total of ninety-four pronouns were used during these periods, thirty during the Sukhothai period, twenty-four during the Ayutthaya period, thirty-five during the early Rattanakosin

The present study aims at investigating the functions and the meanings of /jaŋ/ from the Sukhothai period to the present, as well as, the grammaticalization of the word. The data collected is divided into 5 periods: (1) Sukhothai, (2) Ayutthaya... King It is found that /jaŋ/ in each period has 4 functions: (1) the verb -- /jaŋ/ in the first period had 3 meanings: ‘to exist’, ‘to stay or to be in/at’, and ‘to annex’. In the second period, /jaŋ/ also had 3 meanings: ‘to exist’, ‘to stay

The purposes of this research are to study the evolution of basic color terms in Thai during the Thonburi and Rattanakosin Period, to analyze the formations of non-basic color terms and to study the comparison in Thai color terms with entities.... The data was collected from 690 literatures composed during the two periods. There were 6 basic color terms in Thai during the Thonburi period; WHITE, BLACK, RED, YELLOW, GREEN and PURPLE. While there were found 12 basic color terms during the Rattanakosin