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Publication details [#20713]
Ratanakul, Suriya. 1986. A study of compound nouns in Lawa, White Meo, and Sgaw Karen. In Tracy, Karen, ed. Understanding face-to-face interaction: Issues linking goals and discourse. Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 549–556.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
R. examines in three minority languages of Thailand how (i.e. by which mechanisms) new words are invented to denote newly introduced concepts or objects (such as `aeroplane', `electric light', `hotel', etc.).