Author(s)

Jingyi Chen ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Yunnan Minzu University, Kunming, 650504, China

Corresponding Author

Jingyi Chen

ABSTRACT

In the study of Thai nominalization, previous studies have suggested that kaan and khwaam are symmetric. That is to say, they have similarity in function, but they are different in meaning. Based on the views of distribution and function of structural linguistic theory and, expansion theory, this paper aims to study the distribution of kaan and khwaam, and analyzes the grammatical properties of the nominalizations composed of kaan and khwaam. It is argued in this paper that there are asymmetries between kaan and khwaam in semantics, distribution, internal structure, and syntactic function. Therefore, the views of previous studies are debatable, and there is an asymmetry in kaan and khwaam.

KEYWORDS

Thai; grammaticalization; distribution; expansion; function; asymmetry

CITE THIS PAPER

Jingyi Chen, An Analytical Study of the Nominalizers in Thai Language. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 44-60. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.060808.

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