The study aims to investigate word classes, functions and contexts of the word /bon/ in Thai, along with its meanings and concepts as well as processes and mechanisms of semantic change and development from Sukhothai period to the reign of King Rama... IX of Rattanakosin period (2016 A.D.), using cognitive semantics, grammaticalization, and lexicalization as conceptual frameworks. There were 2,441 tokens of the word /bon/ in total, according to this study. It was found that, firstly, the word /bon

. The way to distinguish metaphors from literal expressions results from the songwriters flouting Grice’s maxims. The songwriters intend to convey far more than their words mean. Furthermore, theory of conceptual metaphor (Lakoff, 1987, 1993; Lakoff... found in which the songwriters conceptualize ‘love’. The researcher also found that the abstract concept of ‘love’ can be generally understood in terms of image schema. This is where ‘love’ is described as physical objects and spatial relations

the monomorphemic word /naj/ in every period. It is found that the word /naj/ has 2 word categories, namely preposition and noun phrase connector. In addition, the word /naj/ has 10 grammatical meanings, namely the meaning “spatial relation”, “temporal relation...The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the word categories and the grammatical meanings of the word /naj/ from the Sukhothai to the present period and analyze the grammaticalization of the word /naj/ according to the concept of Heine and Kuteva

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 temporal noun. The first subtype conveyed spatial meaning; that is, “a position or side that is opposite to the front,” and the latter subtype conveyed “time.” When it preceeded verbs, the preposition /lǎŋ/ normally arose at the beginning of the clause