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Richard Noss
Richard B. Noss set the standard for formal
depiction of Southeast Asian languages. His
Thai
Reference Grammar (Noss 64) weaves four distinct lines of
research into a coherent picture of Thai as a whole:
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a phonemic analysis of the sounds, rhythm, stress, and
intonation of spoken Thai;
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a morphological analysis of Thai word formation, compounding, and
derivational processes;
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a syntactic analysis of Thai phrase and sentence structure;
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a detailed lexicon that covers a considerable subset
of the Thai vocabulary, including more than 500 items that play important
grammatical and functional roles.
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Noss's Thai Reference Grammar is a greatly revised and expanded
version of his dissertation, An Outline of Siamese Grammar
(Yale University, 1954). Originally published by the Foreign
Service Institute, this work was supported by
the U.S. Office of Education (predecessor of today's U.S. Deparment
of Education), which also funded the Mary Haas Thai Dictionary
Project. Additional research for the Reference Grammar was
done in Thailand in 1961, when Noss served as the Foreign Service
Institute's regional language supervisor.
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