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 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

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

documents in the Rattanakosin Period from the reign of King Rama ɪ until present (AD 1782– AD 2012). It is found that those five first–person pronouns originated from different word classes. For example, the noun /phom/ diverged into the first–person pronoun

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

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 study is an attempt to explore Thai historical texts from the Sukhothai period to the present. The framework selected for the research is Systemic Functional Linguistics. The objectives of this study are: 1) to describe textual metafunction... profiles of the Thai historical texts from the three periods, 2) to analyze thematic progression (text development), and 3) to compare lexicogrammatical profiles of the Thai historical texts from the three periods. The data used in this study were collected

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

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

donor language during the Sukhothai period, and (3) analyze vowel length contrast in the Thai language of Sukhothai period based on the Sukhothai graphemic system. The study reveals that Sukhothai vocalic grapheme could be divided into two groups. Those... /ɛː/ and /ɔː/, and diphthongs /iə/, /ɯə/ and /uə/. In conclusion, the Thai language of the Sukhothai period contains vowel length distinction.