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Title: | Conjunct Verbs and Verbs-in-Series in Thai (Serial Verbs, Compound Verbs) |
Author(s): | Sereechareonsatit, Tasanee |
Department / Program: | Linguistics |
Discipline: | Linguistics |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Language, Linguistics |
Abstract: | This dissertation deals with two general types of verb phrases in Thai: conjunct verbs and verbs-in-series. Conjunct verbs in Thai have received little attention in previous works; the classification and analysis of conjunct verbs in this study is, therefore, primary. I conclude that all conjunct verbs function like verbs and are most adequately treated at the lexical level. In Thai, verbs-in-series appear as two different types of constructions: serial verbs and compound verbs. Serial verb sequences can have any of the following interpretations: sequential, purposive, unordered, and simultaneous. A preferred interpretation is determined by considering the semantic information and the speech context. The shared subject constraint holds in all cases of serial verbs in Thai. I present a classification of compound verbs in Thai. Four types of these verbs--directional compound verbs, culminative compound verbs, modal compound verbs, and aspectual compound verbs--are analyzed. |
Issue Date: | 1984 |
Type: | Text |
Description: | 300 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1984. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/69821 |
Other Identifier(s): | (UMI)AAI8422151 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2014-12-15 |
Date Deposited: | 1984 |
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