Verb Classes in Thai
Audra Phillips, Prang Thiengburanathum · 2007
The purpose of this paper is to propose a set of syntactic tests for determining verb classes in Thai, with reference to the syntactic tests presented in Van Valin and LaPolla (1997) and Van Valin (In press). Thai, the national language of Thailand, is a member the Tai-Kadai family of languages. It is an isolating language with almost no morphology. It is also highly context-sensitive. Even so, Thai