คำว่า "เป็น" ที่มีความหมายว่า "มีชีวิต" และ "รู้วิธี" : คำหลายความหมายหรือคำพ้องรูปพ้องเสียง? = The word /pen/ meaning ’to be alive’ and ’to know how to do’ in Thai : polysemy or homonymy?

• Main Author: Jaratjarungkiat, Sureenate
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: other
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Humanities::Language; Historical Linguistics; Language Change
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146163
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article aimed at studying the word /pen/ meaning ‘to be alive’ and ‘to know how to do’ in Thai. The question addressed here was: should they be considered as polysemy or as homonymy? The collected data was based on written records from the Sukhothai period right up until the present. It was...