The Contextual Meanings of the Preposition /kὲː/ in the Sukhothai Period
Keywords:
Contextual meanings, Conceptual meaning, Preposition /kὲː/, Sukhothai period, Cognitive semanticsAbstract
The objective of this article is to investigate the contextual meanings of the preposition /kὲː/ in the Sukhothai period within the cognitive semantics approach. The 61 data were collected from the book “The Inscription Collection Vol. 8: the Sukhothai Stone Inscriptions,” published by the Fine Arts Department in 2005. It is found that the preposition /kὲː/ in the Sukhothai period had 8 different contextual meanings. That is to say, the preposition was used to indicate 1) GOAL: abstract entity, 2) GOAL: emotional target 3) GOAL: transfer source 4) RECIPIENT (of things) 5) ADDRESSEE 6) POSSESSION: interpersonal relationships 7) RECIPINENT (of action) and 8) RECIPIENT (of attention) These 8 conceptual meanings had a shared conceptual meaning of ALLATIVE or GOAL marking. The results of this study indicated that the preposition /kὲː/ in the Sukhothai period is a polysemous word; and the contexts in which it occurred are
a contributing factor for its polysemous quality.
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2019-11-29
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ต๊ะวิชัย (Tawichai) ศ. (Suphachai), & โพธิแพทย์ (Pothipath) ว. (Vipas). (2019). The Contextual Meanings of the Preposition /kὲː/ in the Sukhothai Period. Journal of the Faculty of Arts, Silpakorn University, 41(2), 273–302. Retrieved from https://so04.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jasu/article/view/230718
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