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    การจำแนกภาษากะลอมตามแนวทางภาษาศาสตร์
    (2559) สมทรง บุรุษพัฒน์; สิริวรรณพิชา ธนจิราวัฒน์; ยุทธพร นาคสุข; Somsong Burutpat; Zirivarnphicha Thanajirawat; Yuttaporn Naksuk; มหาวิทยาลัยมหิดล. สถาบันวิจัยภาษาและวัฒนธรรมเอเชีย; มหาวิทยาลัยมหิดล. สถาบันวิจัยภาษาและวัฒนธรรมเพื่อพัฒนาชนบท; มหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีราชมงคลรัตนโกสินทร์. คณะศิลปศาสตร์
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    Discourse studies in Thailand
    (2002-01-01) Somsonge Burusphat; Mahidol University
    This article discusses the status of discourse studies in Thailand, including research on the Tai-Kadai, Austroasiatic, Tibeto-Burman and Hmong-Mien language families and Thai textbooks. Most previous discourse studies on the Tai-Kadai language... projects have focused on sociolinguistic aspects of discourse. There are not many works on the Austroasiatic, Tibeto-Burman and Hmong-Mien language families. The topics that are of main interest are cohesion and discourse markers. Two Thai textbooks
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    A grammar of Bouyei
    (Mahidol University. Mahidol University Library and Knowledge Center, 2023) Attasith Boonsawasd; Somsonge Burusphat; Sujaritlak Deepadung; Pattama Patpong
    by approximately 2,500,000 speakers. It belongs to the Kam-Tai branch of the Tai-Kadai language family. All data collected from relevant documents and the native Bouyei informants living in China were analyzed with the computer software programs FieldWorks Language... hierarchy, especially phonemes and morphemes, because of language contact. However, the syntactic structure of the Bouyei language is mostly still similar to other Tai-Kadai languages
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    Chinese influence on Bouyei basic kinship terms
    (2013-06-01) Attasith Boonsawasd; Mahidol University
    and the native Chinese and Bouyei informants in China, and analyzed with the componential analysis approach. The results revealed that the basic kinship terms in both languages distinguished between generations, linealities, families, ages, genders, and parental... below ego (G-2, G-3) as same as other languages in Kam-Tai groups. There were just three terms in Bouyei borrowed from Chinese. This was shown that the Chinese influence on the Bouyei basic kinship terms were minimal though they have language contact.
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    Endangered languages of Thailand
    (2007-12-01) Suwilai Premsrirat; Mahidol University
    language families: Tai, Austroasiatic, Hmong-Mien, Sino-Tibetan, and Austronesian. All languages are hierarchically interrelated in Thai society with Standard Thai, the only official language, at the highest level. It is used as a medium of instruction...Thailand is situated at the heart of Southeast Asia and as such, exhibits all the remarkable characteristics of the region, which is one the most complex areas of language and ethnicity in the world. The 70 languages of Thailand belong to five
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    Verbal numeral classifiers in languages of Eastern Eurasia: A typological survey
    (2024-01-01) Honkasalo S.; Yurayong C.; Honkasalo S.; Mahidol University
    the phenomenon has been largely overlooked in typological studies that have overwhelmingly focused on the adnominal use of numeral classifiers. Analyzing a sample of 543 linguistic varieties, the study categorizes the language families of Eastern Eurasia... into three groups based on their use of VNCs: 1) VNCs consistently present in all languages (e.g., Tai-Kadai); 2) VNCs present in some languages (e.g., Sino-Tibetan); and 3) VNCs consistently absent (e.g., Yukaghir). Additionally, the meanings of VNCs
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    A comparison of pronouns in narrative discourse in Southeast Asian languages
    (Mahidol University. Mahidol University Library and Knowledge Center, 2023) Itsarate Dolphen; Somsonge Burusphat; Hartmann, John F.; Sujaritlak Deepadung; Pattama Patpong
    Functional Grammar. The research data were taken from secondary sources of three languages: Tai Dam, Kmhmu, and Iu-Mienh, for a total of fifteen stories. The results reveal that full pronouns and zero pronouns of the three language families share some...This thesis aims to analyze and compare full pronouns and zero pronouns focusing on forms and discourse functions that serve as cohesive devices in narrative discourse in Southeast Asian languages by using the theoretical framework of Systemic
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    ไทศึกษา
    (2541) สมทรง บุรุษพัฒน์; Somsonge Burusphat; มหาวิทยาลัยมหิดล. สถาบันวิจัยภาษาและวัฒนธรรมเอเชีย; มหาวิทยาลัยมหิดล. สถาบันวิจัยภาษาและวัฒนธรรมเพื่อพัฒนาชนบท
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    Proto-Tai and Kra-Dai finals *-l and *-c
    (2009) วีระ โอสถาภิรัตน์; Weera Ostapirat; Mahidol University. Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia; Mahidol University. Institute of Language and Cultures for Rural Development
    and other Tai varieties. Supporting evidence for these newlyreconstructed sounds can be found not only in Tai but also in related language groups such as Kra, Hlai and Be. The proposed system is shown to be valid for Proto-Kra-Dai as well....Two proto-endings *-l and *-c are reconstructed and added to the received system of Proto-Tai final consonants. These additional finals help solve some problems of the otherwise irregular correspondences among dialects, especially between Saek
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    The 22nd Annual Conference of Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS) 30 May-2 June 2012
    (2012) Pattama Patpong; ปัทมา พัฒน์พงษ์; Mahidol University. Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia; Mahidol University. Institute of Language and Cultures for Rural Development