Thai Syntax and “National Grammar”  

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Diller, Anthony V.N.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 10 no. 2 (1988), page 273-312.
Fulltext: 10_02_Diller.pdf (2.6MB)

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The status of current judgments of syntactic grammaticality in Thai is considered in the light of sociolinguistic history. A stage of pre-Western diglossia is described. Onto traditional diglossic high registers have been grafted certain Western-derived features of language standardization, including an institutionally-based (and rather academic) notion of the “grammatical sentence”. The latter suppresses certain ‘pragmatic-mode” features of the colloquial language, such as zeroanaphora and imposes SVO word order as a norm. At present, local Thai attitudes towards “grammaticality” of this imported, normative sort (and to Western linguistic influence in general) are mixed and shifting. These attitudes may relate to interests involving modern nationalism and the “Thai national identity”. Thus Thai “starring behavior” does not necessarily reflect innate bioprogram parameter-settings in a direct way and syntactic researchers would do well to consider the discourse-contextual, social-historical and even political grounding of such grammaticality judgments.

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