The objective of this study is to illustrate syntactic structures, functions, and meanings of the word, /lǎŋ/, in Thai. The data were retrieved from the Thai National Corpus (TNC). The results revealed two main patterns of the preposition, /lǎŋ

The current study aims 1) to differentiate NMCCs and synthetic compounds that share structural similarity of ‘noun + verb phrase’ 2) to identify syntactic structures of NMCCs in Thai, and 3) to analyses factors that condition the occurrence of each... structure. The study employs Lexical Integrity Hypothesis to test the internal cohesion of each linear sequence of ‘noun + verb phrase’ and measures their Type/Token Ratio (TTR). It is found that synthetic compounds have low TTR and behave like single-whole

The purpose of this study is to compare the grammatical meanings and syntactic structures of "lel" and "le2" in Mandarin Chinese, and those of "le" in Mandarin Chinese and "'lɛɛw" in Thai. The study shows that "lel" is an aspect marker indicating... either completion of action or change, depending on the types of co-occuring predicates and sentence structures with which the "lel" occurs. “le2" indicates the occurence of a new situation or a new state. Comparing "lel" and "le2" in Mandarin Chinese

specific purposes: to identify syntactic structures and constructional meaning of caused-motion constructions in Thai and to demonstrate the correspondence between the posited syntactic structures and constructional meaning. The researcher collected... the data from the Thai National Corpus under the Patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Mahachakri Sirindhorn (TNC). Analyses reveal that syntactic structures of caused-motion constructions in Thai are divided into three subtypes: (1) prepositional

The objectives of this study are to analyze syntactic, semantic and phonological properties of coordinate compounds in Thai. Syntactically, coordinate compounds are found to consist of two free morphemes of the same parts of speech both functioning... as heads. Coordinate compounds have the same syntactic categories as those of their constituents, i.e. nouns, verbs, and adjectives. It is not possible to insert any elements between the two components. They cannot switch the order either. Semantically

This study aims at investigating the syntactic and semantic properties of serial verb constructions (SVC) in Thai and determining the clause hood of the constructions. It is found that SVC's can be classified into two groups: the basic SVC.... SVC’s The basic SVC's are classified into 14 patterns according to the semantic properties and the position of the verb in the construction. Four syntactic and semantic properties are found to indicate the compactness within the SVC’s. They are sharing

comparative structures, namely, “Bi” sentence,“Yu” sentence with Thai comparative sentence “Kwa” in three levels: syntactic, semantic and pragmatic. The results reveal “Bi” structures are more than the other two, and the ways to use “Bi” are complicated. “Yu... is from basic meaning of these three words. Their basic meanings cause differeces in terms of syntactic structure and usage when used in comparative sentences.

verbs from the general causative usage to which the syntactic structure is ascribed, not to mention the even harder task of distinguishing the causative usage from the putative one given their similar surface structure. Thus, beside the review... and summary of causative usages in previous works, this paper re-analyzes certain problematic cases of causatives using different linguistic factors (i.e., phonological, morphological, and syntactical) together with relevant context clues. Although we have yet

of Passives in Thai. This research argues that those sentences are not a sub-type of Passives in Thai, but a unique construction referred as Patient – Subject Constructions in Thai. This research aims to investigate the syntactic and semantic properties... of Construction Grammar by Adele Goldberg (1995). The theory is based on the assumption that a construction must have its own structure and constructional meaning. In this research, the constructional meaning is “a state or property of the Patient subject