<b>การบ่งกลุ่มนามในภาษาไทย</b><br>Nominal-class Marking in Thai

บทคัดย่อ

The article presents an approach on nominal-class

marking in the Thai language in the view point of
Functional-typological Grammar. Nominal classification
is well-known as a salient grammatical characteristic
of Asian languages and African local languages. In
the Thai language, a Tai branch spoken in Asia, there
appears a number of morphological categories
employed in nominal classification; namely, nominal
classifier, class term and class marker. Nominal
classifiers are condidered a device in the lexicogrammatical system. Class terms are used as a device
in the lexical system. Class markers are in the
grammatical system. The uses of classification systems
vary with regard to grammatical constructions where
classified nouns occur: 1) nominal classifiers are used

in a noun phrases, 2) class terms are used in nominal
compounds and 3) class markers are used in simple
nouns. While nominal classifiers are well-known to
the Thai language studies, class terms and class
markers are less known in Thai language studies.