30.742, Books: A Comparison of Grammaticalization in Shan and Thai: Loss

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Subject: 30.742, Books: A Comparison of Grammaticalization in Shan and Thai: Loss

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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:36:16
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: A Comparison of Grammaticalization in Shan and Thai: Loss

 


Title: A Comparison of Grammaticalization in Shan and Thai 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Language Typology 32  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: http://lincom-shop.eu/LSLT-32-A-Comparison-of-Grammaticalization-in-Shan-and-Thai/en 


Author: Daniel Peter Loss

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862889310 Pages: 186 Price: Europe EURO 72.80


Abstract:

Inspired by previous research into Tai syntactic change and grammaticalization
(Diller 2001), this study looked at two closely related Tai languages – Shan
and Thai – with the aim of better understanding grammaticalization in each
language. The starting point for this research was the extensive literature on
Standard Thai grammaticalization from which the researcher compiled several
grammaticalized morphemes (grams), for the purpose of comparison with Shan.
This study also adopted an approach based on Post (2007), which entailed the
use of two genre-specific corpora of each language to compare the relative
frequencies of analogous grams. Despite many similarities, the comparison
revealed some differences between Shan and Thai grams in areas of verb-phrase
and noun-phrase syntax. This study lays out the findings of this comparison by
showing the areas of the comparison and findings on Shan, where it differed
from Standard Thai. It ends with some brief ideas and suggestions for more
comparative grammatical research.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Typology

Subject Language(s): Shan (shn)
                     Thai (tha)


Written In: English  (eng)

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