A Typological Analysis of the Structure of Place Names in Laos’s Tailue Language
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The research of the structure of place names in Laos’s Tailue language is part of the research project studying place names in Laos. This research includes the research of place names in five provinces in northern Laos there are：Phongsali provinces, Luangnamtha Province, Bokeo Province, Oudomsai Province, Luangprabang Province and Saiyaboury Province in which the Tailue language is used. This paper uses 1600 Tailue place names to conduct analysis on the structural use of morphemes, finding that place names in Tailue are made up of anywhere between one and four morphemes. From a lexical perspective, place names in Tailue usually have a central word item related to things like forests, plants, animals, occupations, minerals, water, rivers, etc. Same place names have the first two morphemes as the central word item with modifying morphemes following it. In this type of structure of Tailue’s place names, Which the word structure is mainly composed of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, numerals, verbs, etc., and the other main components are compound words such as noun plus noun, noun plus verb, and adjective plus noun. and many more.
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