Author

Nantha Klinnanee

Title

Classifiers in mien / Nantha Klinnanee

Date

1989

Location

CL thesis

Source

233 leaves

Abstract

This study aims at collecting as many classifiers in Mien as possible and at identifying the selectional restrictions between classifiers and nouns. The data used in this study are collected from the research works on classifiers in Mien, and are elicitted from seven informants at Ban Huaj Mae Saj, Tambol Mae Yao, Amphoe Muang, Chiengraj Province and are also based on as printed materials in Mien found at the library of the Christian Hospital, Amphoe Chiengkam, Phayao Province. A total of 150 classifiers which co-occur with 1,425 nouns are then collected. The collected classifiers can be seman tically classified into 5 major types: itemizer, fractionalizer, collectivizer, unit of measurement and kind. These different types of classifiers reflect different views of the things refered to by nouns. That is, the itemizer is used to individuate and count the things that nouns refer to. The fractionalizer is used to indicate parts or fractions of the things that nouns refer to. The collectivizer is used to express a collection of things that nouns refer to. The unit of measurement is used to indicate the value of the properties inherent in the things referred to by nouns. The kind is used to classify the things that nouns refer to on the basis of king or type. Each major type of classifers can be classified into subtypes which exist in hierarchical relationship expressed in tree diagrams. A semantic feature corresponding to each type of classifier is proposed and certain features are selected as characteristic features for each classifier. The set of characteristic features for each classifier consists of a feature indicating the major type of classifier, a feature expressing the meaning specific to that classifier and a selectional restriction feature which expresses the meaning of the nouns that can co-occur with the classifier

นอกจากนี้ ผู้วิจัยยังได้กำหนดอรรถลักษณ์สำหรับแต่ละประเภทของคำลักษณนาม และคัดเลือกเฉพาะอรรถลักษณ์ที่จำแนกลักษณนามคำหนึ่งออกจากลักษณนามอีกคำหนึ่งมาแสดงเป็นชุดอรรถลักษณ์สำหรับลักษณนามแต่ละคำ อรรถลักษณ์ดังกล่าวประกอบด้วยอรรถลักษณ์ที่แสดงประเภทใหญ่สุดของคำลักษณนาม อรรถลักษณ์ที่แสดงความหมายเฉพาะของคำลักษณนามและอรรถลักษณ์ของคำนามที่เกิดร่วมกับคำลักษณนามนั้น ๆ หรือเรียกว่าลักษณ์บ่งการเกิดร่วมนั่นเอง

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Thesis (M.A.)--Chulalongkorn University,1989

Alt author

นันทา กลิ่นมณี

Kingkarn Thepkanjana, advisor

Chulalongkorn University. Linguistics

ISBN

9745777951