/sòt/ : A Polysemy in Contemporary Thai
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This research article aims to examine the use of the word /sòt/, a polysemy in contemporary Thai from the Thai National Corpus and 3 social media, namely Facebook, TikTok, and Twitter or X. The article studied 3 issues: positions and functions, semantics, and word formation dynamics. Analyzing the positions and functions of /sòt/ in contemporary Thai is based on sentence frames and semantic criteria. The results found 2 positions and functions of /sòt/: 1) the postposition of nouns: sub-intransitive verb word-class with the content word function; and 2) the postposition of verbs: adverb word-class with modifier function. The study of the semantics of /sòt/ in contemporary Thai is based on componential analysis. The results found 6 semantic feathers: 1) 4 semantic feathers’ postposition of nouns: sub-intransitive verb; and 2) 2 semantic feathers’ postposition of verbs: adverb word. Furthermore, the study found compound words from /sòt/. The word formation dynamic of /sòt/ is driven by combining /sòt/ with other elements, which extends the word’s meaning. Compounding forms are divided into 1) compound words from different words and 2) compound words from similar words.
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