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A Corpus-Based Study of Thai and English Quantity Word Equivalents: "Laay," "Several" and "Many"
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Wijitsopon, Raksangob – rEFLections, 2021
The present study investigates the Thai quantifier 'laay' ([Thai characters omitted]) and its two major English lexical equivalents: 'several' and 'many', using data from an English-Thai parallel corpus, the Thai and British National Corpora. An examination of the parallel corpus reveals that the quantifier 'laay' has a broad semantic property as…
Descriptors: Thai, Contrastive Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, English