16.406, Books: Lang Description, Thai: Iwasaki, Ingkaphirom

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From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: A Reference Grammar of Thai: Iwasaki, Ingkaphirom 

	
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Subject: A Reference Grammar of Thai: Iwasaki, Ingkaphirom   
 



Title: A Reference Grammar of Thai 
Series Title: Reference Grammars  

Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	

Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/9780521650854 


Author: Shoichi Iwasaki, University of California, Los Angeles
Author: Preeya Ingkaphirom, Tokyo Gakugei University

Hardback: ISBN: 0521650852 Pages: 416 Price: U.S. $ 100.00
Hardback: ISBN: 0521650852 Pages: 416 Price: U.K. £ 60.00


Abstract:

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. 



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. 


Linguistic Field(s): Language Description

Subject Language(s): Thai (THJ)


Written In: English  (ENG)
	
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