A reference grammar of Thai.0521650852 A reference grammar of Thai. Iwasaki, Shoichi and Preeya Ingkaphirom. Cambridge U. Pr. 2005 392 pages $110.00 Hardcover Reference grammars PL4163 Iwasaki and Ingkaphirom offer a detailed functional account of Thai grammar for intermediate to advanced learners of Thai and the teachers of these students, and for linguists A linguist in the academic sense is a person who studies linguistics. Ambiguously, the word is sometimes also used to refer to a polyglot (one who knows more than 2 languages), or a grammarian, but these two uses of the word are distinct. interested in learning the structure of the language from a functional linguistic perspective. The text draws on data from everyday spoken language such as informal conversation, group discussions, interviews and narratives, as well as nontechnical written texts, to discuss the grammatical phenomena at both the sentence- and discourse-level. Examples are presented in both Thai orthography and IPA IPA - International Phonetic Alphabet symbols throughout the text. Iwasaki teaches Asian languages and cultures at UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX ; now an independent scholar An independent scholar is anyone who works outside traditional academia in the pursuit of truth and knowledge. The status of independent scholar is often an amateur rather than a professional although this is not always a matter of choice. , Ingkaphirom taught at Tokyo Gakugei U. and conducted research at the National Institute for Japanese Language Japanese language Language spoken by about 125 million people on the islands of Japan, including the Ryukyus. The only other language of the Japanese archipelago is Ainu (see Ainu), now spoken by only a handful of people on Hokkaido, though once much more widespread. in Tokyo. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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