@article{Rattanatumskul_Natpratan_2021, title={The Study of Syntactic Structures, Functions, and Meanings of /lǎŋ/ in Thai}, volume={39}, url={https://so04.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/joling/article/view/247726}, abstractNote={<p>The objective of this study is to illustrate syntactic structures, functions, and meanings of the word, /lǎŋ/, in Thai. The data were retrieved from the Thai National Corpus (TNC). The results revealed two main patterns of the preposition, /lǎŋ/, that preceded nouns and verbs. The preposition, /lǎŋ/, preceding nouns, functioned as the head of the prepositional phrase in conjunction with the noun. It could be divided into two subtypes: one that preceded the locational noun and one that preceded the temporal noun. The first subtype conveyed spatial meaning; that is, “a position or side that is opposite to the front,” and the latter subtype conveyed “time.” When it preceeded verbs, the preposition /lǎŋ/ normally arose at the beginning of the clause. Here it functioned as a subordinator, known as a connector, and conveyed “sequence.”</p>}, number={2}, journal={Language and Linguistics}, author={Rattanatumskul, Chalanda and Natpratan, Natchanan}, year={2021}, month={Jul.}, pages={114–136} }