A Comparison of Grammaticalization in Shan and Thai
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Jan 25, 2017
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Shan Thai Grammaticalization
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The Thai language has been the subject of much grammaticalization research but, more information about grammaticalization in other Tai languages is needed. This study addresses this need, by investigating synchronic language corpora created to compare grammatical elements of Thai and Shan. The corpora for both languages were the result of a video elicitation method (Post 2007) that controlled the genre of the texts within the corpora. It was found that the possessive marker kʰɔ̌ɔŋ appears to be more deeply grammaticalized within Thai than Shan. Both languages were found to have similar frequencies for the multi-functional morpheme thîi. Differences in some verbal auxiliaries also imply different influences in respect to areal borrowing.
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Loss, D. (2017). A Comparison of Grammaticalization in Shan and Thai. PAYAP UNIVERSITY JOURNAL, 26(2), 203–216. https://doi.org/10.14456/pyuj.2016.15
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Pittayaporn, P. (2009). Proto-Southwestern-Tai Revised: A New Reconstruction. In P. Sidwell (Ed.) Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. Vol.2 (pp. 119-143).
Post, M. W. (2007). Grammaticalization and compounding in Thai and Chinese: A text- frequency approach. In Studies in Language 31(1) (pp. 117-76). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Takahashi, K. (2012). On Historical Semantic Changes of the Thai Morpheme Hâj. In P. Sidwell (Ed.) Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (pp. 126-141).
Thepkanjana, K. & Uehara, S. (2008). Directional Verbs as Success Markers in Thai: Another Grammaticalization path. In A. Diller et al (Ed.) The Tai-Kadai languages. New York: Routledge.