New Thai reference grammar book

[Yuphaphann Hoonchamlong]

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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:28:23 -0700
From: "Iwasaki, Shoichi" <iwasaki at humnet.ucla.edu>
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A Reference Grammar of Thai by Shoichi Iwasaki and Preeya Ingkaphirom
(Cambridge University Press)

A Reference Grammar of Thai provides a clear, detailed and comprehensive
guide to Thai grammar, designed for intermediate to advanced learners.
Written by two leading experts on Thai, it places a special emphasis on
functional accounts of its grammatical phenomena: the use of demonstratives,
personal reference terms, the modality system, the aspectual system,
pragmatic particles, verb serialization, relative clauses, question
formation, passive and causative constructions, topic marking, and many
more. Unlike any other book on Thai grammar, it draws on data from everyday
spoken discourses such as informal conversation, group discussions,
interviews and narratives, as well as non-technical written texts such as
folk tales, short stories, and newspaper articles, to discuss grammatical
phenomena at both sentence and discourse level. An extensive index is
provided and examples are given in both Thai orthography and IPA symbols,
making this an invaluable resource for linguists as well as students and
teachers of Thai.


* Detailed, comprehensive and user-friendly, making it suitable for
intermediate to advanced learners of Thai as well as scholars


* Illustrates 'real' language using data from everyday spoken discourses as
well as non-technical written texts


* Provides definitions and explanations of technical linguistic terms before
discussion
Contents

1. Introduction; 2. The structure of words; 3. Personal reference terms; 4.
The structure of noun phrases; 5. Numeral classifiers; 6. Demonstratives; 7.
Adjectives; 8. Adverbs and adverbial phrases; 9. Verbs and transitivity; 10.
Challengeability marker: /cå/; 11. Modality; 12. Aspect; 13. Linking
particle: /kç>/; 14. Speech level particles; 15. Pragmatic particles; 16.
Body-part expressions; 17. Copulative sentences; 18. Serial verb
construction; 19. Relative clauses; 20. Complementation; 21. Quotation and
complementizer /wâa/; 22. Adverbial clauses; 23. 'Yes/No' and tag questions;
24. Interrogative and indefinite expressions; 25. Reciprocal, distributive,
and collective: /kan/; 26. Passive; 27. Causative; 28. Benefactive and
purposive; 29. Potential; 30. Discourse.

For more information:

http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521650852

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