Essays in Tai Linguistics

actr adverb analysis animal signs bàat Bangkok Central Thai Chongzuo Chongzuo Tiandong Nandan Chulalongkorn University classifier cognates color signs coverb Dehong dèk dialects English example Faimor Tamrak Wuthang fingerspelling function glottal stop glottis grammar grammaticalization homophonous iconic devices impersonal verb intransitive verb kham khruu kinship terms lexical items lexicase Linguistics long vowels marker meaning metonymic mime nakrian Nandan Faimor Tamrak Ngao Ngao Fon noun nɔɔŋ Nung Patient phonetic phonological polysemy Prasithrathsint prepositions Proto-Tai Province referents rhyme Savetamalya semantic sentence sequential combinations Siamese sign forms sign languages Southeast Asian Southern Thai speakers splits and mergers spoken Standard Thai Starosta structure substitutive depiction syllables syntactic Tai languages Tai-Kadai language Tamrak Wuthang Debao terms in Thai Thailand thùuk Tiandong Nandan Faimor tonal tone splits trns Unpublished variation voiceless wák Warotamasikkhadit Wh-movement word classes Zhuang μμ σ σ σ σμ σσσσ