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• Edmondson, Jerold A. 1996. "Voice qualities and inverse filtering in Chong."  
• Miller, Carolyn P. 1996. "Application of typologies for language maintenance and loss to Southeast Asian linguistic minorities: the case of the Bru-So and Kadazan-Dusun language continua."

Acoustic analysis

• Thomas, David D. and Wanna Tienmee. 1983. "An acoustic study of Northern Khmer vowels."

Adverbials

• Hanna, William J. 1988. "Negated adverbials in Tai Lue of Northern Thailand."
• Phillips, Audra. 2009. Handbook on adverbials.
• Suriya Ratanakul. 2001. "Adverbs in Sgaw Karen."  

Affixes

• Jenny, Mathias. 2003. "New infixes in spoken Mon."  

Alphabet

• Kensiw consonants. 1995. (Kensiu)  

Articles

• Rischel, Jørgen. 2006. "The "definite article" in Mlabri."

Articulatory phonetics

• Amon Thavisak. 2001. "The effects of glottal finals on pitch in Southeast Asian languages."  
• Morev, Lev N. 2001. "Some occurrences of sandhi and morphonology in Tai."  

Bibliography

• Suwilai Premsrirat. 1997. "Linguistic contributions to the study of the Northern Khmer language of Thailand in the last two decades."  

Bilingual education

• Thomas, Dorothy M. 1989. "Modern experiences with bilingual education."

Bilingualism

• Nahhas, Ramzi W. 2007. "Sociolinguistic survey of Mpi in Thailand."  

Borrowing

• Kapper, James. 1992. "English borrowing in Thai as reflected in Thai journalistic texts."

Causative voice

• Ratanakul, Suriya. 1981. "Transitivity and causation in Sgaw Karen."
• Thomas, Dorothy. 1984. "The deliberate causative in Surin Khmer."

Clauses

• Amara Prasithrathsint and Natchanan Yaowapat. 2009. "A typology of relative clauses in Mainland Southeast Asian languages."  
• Thomas, David D. 1983. "Batteries of location clauses in English."

Cognitive studies

• Natesuwon, Damri. 1979. "A comp[on]ential analysis of Southern-Thai kinship terminologies."

Communication

• Solot Sirisai. 2007. "Turn taking management techniques used by Thai TV interviewers."
• Umaporn Sungkaman. 2007. "Backchannel response in Mon conversation."

Community development

• Hoonpayont, Surassawadee. 1992. "Can literacy overcome developmental barriers in Thai rural communities?."
• Kosonen, Kimmo. 2002. "Vernacular literacy in community development: the Chong of Thailand."
• Srinarawat, Deeyu and Brian Migliazza, editors. 1992. Overcoming developmental barriers in rural communities: Literacy as a tool (Proceedings of the fifth TU-SIL-LRDP academic seminar at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, 18-19 November 1991).
• Thananant, Sukhumal. 1992. "Illiteracy and ignorance as barriers to rural development."

Comparative and historical studies

• Benedict, Paul K. 1997. "Linguistic prediction: The case of Saek."
• Bennett, Jefferson Fraser. 1995. Metrical foot structure in Thai and Kayah Li: Optimality-theoretic studies in the prosody of two southeast Asian languages.
• Filbeck, David. 1997. "The Protasis-Apodosis construction in Mal."  
• Hopple, Paulette. 2001. "Historical linguistics in Southeast Asian language programs."
• Kauffman, William G. 1993. The great tone split and Central Karen.
• Luo Yongxian. 1997. "Expanding the Proto-Tai lexicon—a supplement to Li (1977)."  
• Miller, John D. and Carolyn P. Miller. 1995. "Notes on phonology and orthography in several Katuic Mon-Khmer groups in Northeast Thailand."  
• Miller, John D. and Carolyn P. Miller. 1996. "Lexical comparison of Katuic Mon-Khmer languages with special focus on So-Bru groups in northeast Thailand."  
• Morev, Lev. 1996. "Reciprocal and cooperative in Tai."  
• Nomura, Naomitsu Mikami. 1992. "A semantic analysis of the so-called passive verbs in some Indochinese languages."  
• Phaiboon, Duangchan. 2006. "Glossary of Aslian languages: the northern Aslian languages of southern Thailand."
• Prachakij-karacak Phraya, David Thomas andSophana Srichampa. 1995. Some languages of Siam.
• Prakorb Phon-Ngam. 1993. "The problem of aspirates in Central Khmer and Northern Khmer."  
• Pranee Kullavanijaya. 1997. "Village names in Guangxi Province and northeastern Thailand."
• Puttachart Dhananjayananda. 1997. "The emergence of the length distinction in the mid-front vowels ‘e-ee’ in Thai."
• Ratliff, Martha. 1997. "Hmong-Mien demonstratives and pattern persistence."  
• Suwilai Premsrirat. 1997. "Linguistic contributions to the study of the Northern Khmer language of Thailand in the last two decades."  
• Theraphan L.-Thongkum. 1993. "A view on Proto-Mjuenic (Yao)."  
• Thomas, David. 1990. "On early Monic, Vietic, and Bahnaric relations."  
• Yao Shun An. 1994. "A comparison of the culture of the Yao people in China and Thailand."

Computer programs

• Beale, Stephen. 1991. "Machine translation in South-East Asian minority languages."
• Hosken, Martin. 2002. "Rendering Thai as an example of using Graphite for Generalised Smart Font Rendering."

Conditional clauses

• Filbeck, David. 1997. "The Protasis-Apodosis construction in Mal."  

Conjunctions

• Thomas, David. 1979. "Coordinate conjunctions in Thai."

Connectives

• Migliazza, Brian. 2000. So discourse connectives.

Consonants

• Prakorb Phon-Ngam. 1993. "The problem of aspirates in Central Khmer and Northern Khmer."  

Cross-cultural communication

• Peterson, Mary M. 1991. Miscommunication in the classroom: Discourse level considerations.
• Samermit, Potchanat and David D. Thomas, editors. 1989. Linguistics and worldview: In honor of Professor Kenneth L. Pike: Papers from the academic seminar on ‘‘Linguistics and worldview’’ held at Thammasat University, Bangkok, February 17-19, 1986.
• Saurman, Todd. 1996. "Exploring Thai music in Bangkok."

Culture and folklore

• Goephlong pong. 2001. (Karen, Pwo Eastern)
• Goephlong pong. 2001. (Karen, Pwo Western Thailand)

Demonstratives

• Ratliff, Martha. 1997. "Hmong-Mien demonstratives and pattern persistence."  

Dialect surveys

• Nahhas, Ramzi W. 2007. "Sociolinguistic survey of Mpi in Thailand."  
• van der Haak, Feikje and Brigitte Woykos. 1990. "Kui dialect survey in Surin and Sisaket."  

Dictionaries and vocabularies

• Bauer, Robert S. 2000. Review of: Nghe an Khmu-Vietnamese-Thai-English dictionary, by Suwilai Premsrirat and others.  
• Bishop, Nancy M. and Mary M. Peterson. 1993. Kensiw health glossary.  
• Johnston, Richard. 1969. "Kuy basic word list."  
• Prachakij-karacak Phraya, David Thomas andSophana Srichampa. 1995. Some languages of Siam.
• Solnit, David. 1992. Review of: a Thai-Sgaw Karen dictionary, by Suriya Ratanakul, compiler.  
• Suwilai Premsrirat; David Thomas and Robert S. Bauer, editors. 2002. The thesaurus and dictionary series of Khmu dialects in Southeast Asia.  

Discourse analysis

• Block, Karen L. 1994. Discourse grammar of first person narrative in Plang.
• Juntawieng, Usitara. 1997. A discourse study of a selection of the Northern Thai sermons of Phrakhru Sophon Boonyaphorn (Tuu Cok).
• Person, Kirk R. 1996. "Thailand's "straight-talking" monk: a discourse analysis of the hortatory speech of Phra Phayom Kalayano."
• Person, Kirk R. 1996. "The language of preaching in the style of Phra Phayon Kalayaro: an analysis of dhamma proclamation."
• Thomas, David and Dorothy Thomas. 1982. "Word play in Surin Khmer."
• Thomas, David D. 1983. "Discourse components."

Discourse markers

• Sujaritlak Deepadung and Suriya Ratanakul. 1997. "Final particles in conversational Mal (Thin)."  

Discourse structure

• Migliazza, Brian. 2001. So procedural texts.

Education

• Kosonen, Kimmo, Catherine Young and Susan Malone. 2007. Promoting literacy in multilingual settings.  

Endangered languages

• Sunee, Kamnuansin. 2003. "Syntactic characteristics of Kasong: an endangered language of Thailand."  
• Tehan, Thomas M. and Ramzi W. Nahhas. 2009. "Mpi present and future: reversing language shift."  

Ethnography

• Bishop, Nancy M. 1996. "Whos’s who in Kensiw? Terms of reference and address in Kensiw."  
• Isara, Choosri. 2004. "'Châak' and other Chong place names: linguistic remains of a Mon-Khmer people in Eastern Thailand."  
• Person, Kirk R. 1999. "The kinship system of the Bisu of Chiang Rai."
• Person, Kirk R. 2005. "Language revitalization or dying gasp? Language preservation efforts among the Bisu of Northern Thailand."
• Pitchanee, Sotthiyothin. 2006. "Chinese auspicious signs: Tiaofu and Duilian."
• Prachakij-karacak Phraya, David Thomas andSophana Srichampa. 1995. Some languages of Siam.
• Saowapa Pornsiripongse. 2007. "Social capital and non communicable disease prevention: experiences from Thailand."
• Saurman, Mary Beth. 2003. Sounding the center: history and aesthetics in Thai Buddhist performance, by Deborah Wong.
• Sophana Srichampa. 2006. "Thai and Vietnamese proverbs and common expressions: the influence of Buddhist and local beliefs."
• Sujaritlak Deepadung and Dumsa-ard Prapasri. 2007. "From Moulmein in Myanmar to Sangkhla Buri in Thailand: an ethnographic study of a Mon village."
• Suwilai Premsrirat. 1992. "The Khmu color system and its elaborations."  
• Suwilai Premsrirat. 2002. "Appropriateness in Khmu culture."  
• van der Haak, Feikje and Brigitte Woykos. 1990. "History and life of the Kui people."
• van der Haak, Feikje. 1987. "Calling the spirits: an observation of its practice among the Kui in Thailand."
• Woykos, Brigitte and Feikje van der Haak. 1990. "Prawat lae chiiwit khwaam pen yuu khong chaaw kuuy."  
• Woykos, Brigitte. 1989. "Hochzeitsbräuche und -riten der Kui in Thailand."
• Zingg, Philipp and Brigitte Woykos, editors. 1989. Religiöser mythos und hochzeitsriten: einführung in zusammenhänge.

Ethnolinguistics

• Filbeck, David. 1996. "Couplets and duplications in Mal."  
• Miller, Carolyn. 1994. "Perceptions of ethnolinguistic identity, language shift and language use in Mon-Khmer language communities of Northeast Thailand."  

Ethnomusicology

• Saurman, Mary E. 1996. "Thai speech tones and melodic pitches: How they work together or collide."
• Saurman, Mary E. 1999. "The agreement of Thai speech tones and melodic pitches."
• Saurman, Mary E. and Todd W. Saurman. 1997. Southeast Asia music in culture research project: preliminary phase.
• Saurman, Todd. 1996. "Exploring Thai music in Bangkok."
• Saurman, Todd. 2000. "Exploring Thai music in Bangkok."

Field manuals

• Richardus, J. H. and M. Wannemacher, editors. 2001. Village health: a handbook for village health workers in Southeast Asia.
• Richardus, Jan H. and Mark Wannemacher, editors. 1993. Village health: a handbook for village health workers in Southeast Asia, books 1-6.

Field techniques

• Thomas, David D. 1977. "Consulting."
• Thomas, David D. 1977. "Writing and checking."
• Thomas, David D. 1980. "How intuitive is the ‘word’?."
• Thomas, David D. 1987. "Consultants as encouragers."

Functional literacy

• Srinarawat, Deeyu and Brian Migliazza, editors. 1992. Overcoming developmental barriers in rural communities: Literacy as a tool (Proceedings of the fifth TU-SIL-LRDP academic seminar at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, 18-19 November 1991).

Grammar theories

• Thomas, David D. 1980. "Toward a theory of sentence structure."
• Tumtavitikul, Apiluck. 1997. "Reflection on the Xʼ category in Thai."  

Grammatical descriptions

• Filbeck, David. 1996. "Couplets and duplications in Mal."  
• Migliazza, Brian. 1998. A grammar of So - A Mon-Khmer language of northeast Thailand.
• Migliazza, Brian. 2003. "So stories: a preliminary analysis of texts in a Mon-Khmer language."  
• Paulsen, Debbie Lynn. 1989. A phonological reconstruction of proto-Plang.
• Ratanakul, Suriya, David D. Thomas, and Suwilai Premsrirat, editors. 1985. Southeast Asian linguistic studies presented to André-G. Haudricourt.

Hierarchy

• Thomas, David D. 1974. "A proposed structural model."
• Thomas, David D. 1977. "A note on hierarchies and levels (cont.)."
• Thomas, David D. 1977. "A note on hierarchies and levels."

Intonation

• Paulsen, Debbie. 1996. "Tone and intonation in Plang."

Kinship studies

• Natesuwon, Damri. 1979. "A comp[on]ential analysis of Southern-Thai kinship terminologies."

Kinship systems

• Person, Kirk R. 1999. "The kinship system of the Bisu of Chiang Rai."
• Suwilai Premsrirat. 2002. "Appropriateness in Khmu culture."  

Kinship terms

• Bishop, Nancy M. 1996. "Whos’s who in Kensiw? Terms of reference and address in Kensiw."  

Language change

• Sophana Srichampa. 2009. "Patterns of polite expressions in Vietnamese."  

Language classification

• Isara, Choosri. 2002. "Dialects of Chong."  
• Robinson, Edward Raymond. 1994. Further classification of Southwestern Tai "P" group languages.
• Thomas, David. 1990. "On the "language" status of Northern Khmer."

Language death

• Malone, Danis. 2005. "Where do we go from here? The challenge and prospects of language revitalization in South East Asia."

Language development

• Malone, Dennis L. and Suwilai Premsrirat. 2005. "Language development and language revitalization in Asia."  
• Suwilai Premsrirat and Dennis Malone. 2003. Language development and language revitalization in Asia.  

Language distribution

• Edmondson, Jerold A. and David B. Solnit. 1997. "Introduction."

Language learning

• Malone, Dennis L. 2001. "Language development in a minority language community: report of the Chong Writers Workshop, Klong Phlu Village, Khao Kichakut District Chantaburi Province, 4-6 August 2000."  

Language maintenance

• Malone, Danis. 2005. "Where do we go from here? The challenge and prospects of language revitalization in South East Asia."
• Malone, Dennis L. and Isara Choosri. 2007. "Stabilizing indigenous languages, a Symposium report."  
• Nahhas, Ramzi W. 2007. "Sociolinguistic survey of Mpi in Thailand."  
• Person, Kirk R. 2005. "Language revitalization or dying gasp? Language preservation efforts among the Bisu of Northern Thailand."

Language policy

• Kosonen, Kimmo, Catherine Young and Susan Malone. 2007. Promoting literacy in multilingual settings.  
• Kosonen, Kimmo. 2003. "Community participation in minority language education in Thailand."
• Kosonen, Kimmo. 2005. "Vernaculars in literacy and basic education in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand."
• Malone, Dennis L. and Isara Choosri. 2007. "Stabilizing indigenous languages, a Symposium report."  
• Samermit, Potchanat and David D. Thomas, editors. 1989. Linguistics and worldview: In honor of Professor Kenneth L. Pike: Papers from the academic seminar on ‘‘Linguistics and worldview’’ held at Thammasat University, Bangkok, February 17-19, 1986.

Language programs

• Kosonen, Kimmo. 2002. Literacy in a minority language - the case of Chong of Chantaburi.

Language shift

• Tehan, Thomas M. and Ramzi W. Nahhas. 2009. "Mpi present and future: reversing language shift."  

Language surveys

• Bishop, Nancy M. and Mary M. Peterson. 1993. Maniq language survey report.  
• Bishop, Nancy M. and Mary M. Peterson. 2000. Language survey instruments for Northern Aslian language: June 2000 revision.  
• Bishop, Nancy M. and Mary M. Peterson. 2003. Northern Aslian language survey: Trang, Satul and Phatthalung provinces, Thailand.  
• Dawkins, Erin and Cortney Kirkland. 2008. "A sociolinguistic survey of Tai Ya in Thailand."  
• Jordan-Diller, Kari and Jason Diller. 2004. "The Prai of Northern Thailand: a sociolinguistic survey of a Mon-Khmer language."  
• Phillips, Audra. 1996. "Dialect comparison among the Pwo Karen of central Thailand."

Language use

• Bishop, Nancy M. 1988. "Multilingualism among the Baansakai Maniq."
• Malone, Dennis L. and Isara Choosri. 2007. "Stabilizing indigenous languages, a Symposium report."  
• Natthida Chakshuraksha. 2005. "The home domain and minority language maintenance: a sociolinguistic view of three Black Tai families in Thailand."  

Languages in contact

• Preecha Sukkasem. 2005. "Phonological variations and changes due to language contact: a case study of consonants in four Kuai-Kui (Suai) dialects."  
• Thomas, David D. 1989. "Linguistics and worldview: Lectures by Kenneth and Evelyn Pike—an interpretive summary."

Lexicography

• Luo Yongxian. 1997. "Expanding the Proto-Tai lexicon—a supplement to Li (1977)."  
• Thomas, David D. 1991. "Lexicography of other Southeast Asian languages."

Lexicostatistics

• Migliazza, Brian Louis. 1992. "Lexicostatistic analysis of some Katuic languages."
• Miller, John D. and Carolyn P. Miller. 1996. "Lexical comparison of Katuic Mon-Khmer languages with special focus on So-Bru groups in northeast Thailand."  
• Smith, Kenneth D. 1981. "A lexico-statistical study of 45 Mon-Khmer languages."

Linguistic textbooks

• Thomas, David D. 1983. An invitation to grammar.
• Thomas, David. 1993. An invitation to grammar, revised edition.

Linguistic theory

• Bennett, J. Fraser. 2005. "Reanalyzing Thai glottal codas: probability, perception, and displaced contrast."  
• Migliazza, Brian L. 1989. Autonomous syntactic tiers.
• Thomas, David D. 1974. "What is why? (or, why is what)."
• Thomas, David D. 1977. "Sentence components."
• Thomas, David D. 1980. "Centrifugal force and black holes in language."

Literacy

• Hogan, Doreen. 1982. "Special considerations for adult literacy work."
• Kosonen, Kimmo. 2002. "Vernacular literacy in community development: the Chong of Thailand."

Literacy materials

• Malone, Dennis L. 2001. "Language development in a minority language community: report of the Chong Writers Workshop, Klong Phlu Village, Khao Kichakut District Chantaburi Province, 4-6 August 2000."  

Literacy methods

• Kaewsaiha, Tongyoo. 1992. "Literacy campaign: a cooperative program for upgrading life quality."
• Person, Kirk R. 1999. "Writing Bisu: a community-based approach to orthography development."
• Premsrirat, Suwilai. 1992. "Literacy promotion: a case study of minority groups."
• Thomas, Dorothy M. 1990. "Why the ‘Gudschinsky’ method?."
• Thomas, Dorothy M. 1992. "Learning how to convince the experts."
• Toland, Norma. 1990. Review of: Village reading centers of Thailand, by Geeta Ram.
• Voravarn, Kasama. 1992. "My experience with literacy promotion in Thailand."

Literacy programs

• Kosonen, Kimmo, Catherine Young and Susan Malone. 2007. Promoting literacy in multilingual settings.  
• Kosonen, Kimmo. 2002. Literacy in a minority language - the case of Chong of Chantaburi.
• Kosonen, Kimmo. 2003. "Community participation in minority language education in Thailand."

Locatives

• Peterson, Mary M. 1992. Lost in space: discovering spatial locatives in Kensiw.  

Meeting reports

• Migliazza, Brian. 1992. "The 24th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics: Mon-Khmer section."
• van der Haak, Feikje. 1994. "Benefits of the Ethnolinguistic Mapping Project of Ethnic Groups in Thailand Seminar, held on February 8, 1993, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand."  

Metaphors

• Ukosakul, Margaret. 2000. Don’t "lose your face"!: conceptual metaphors motivating the use of Thai "face".

Morphology

• Thomas, David D. 1983. Review of: a lexicon of Khmer morphology, by Philip N. Jenner and Saveros Pou.

Multilingualism

• Bishop, Nancy M. 1988. "Multilingualism among the Baansakai Maniq."
• Bishop, Nancy M. 2001. "Sociolinguistic aspects of Northern Aslian languages: a case study of Kensiw (Kensiu) [Baansakai, Yala, Thailand."
• Migliazza, Brian. 2002. Multilingualism among the So people of Issan.
• Samermit, Potchanat and David D. Thomas, editors. 1989. Linguistics and worldview: In honor of Professor Kenneth L. Pike: Papers from the academic seminar on ‘‘Linguistics and worldview’’ held at Thammasat University, Bangkok, February 17-19, 1986.

Narrative discourse

• Block, Karen L. 1996. "What makes a story a story in Plang?."  
• Somsonge Burusphat. 1991. The structure of Thai narrative.  
• Somsonge Burusphat. 1992. "The identification of storyline in Thai narrative discourse."  
• Somsonge Burusphat. 1993. "Kui narrative repetition."  

Negation

• Hanna, William J. 1988. "Negated adverbials in Tai Lue of Northern Thailand."
• Jenny, Mathias. 2003. "New infixes in spoken Mon."  

Noun classification

• Somsonge Burusphat. 2007. "A comparison of general classifiers in Tai-Kadai languages."

Nouns

• Morev, Lev N. 2006. "Cognitive and structural aspects of abstract nominalization in Tai and some other isolating languages of Southeast Asia."

Number

• Suriya Ratanakul. 1998. "Numeral classifiers in Sgaw Karen."  

Orthography

• Bishop, Nancy M. and Mary M. Peterson. 1997. Kensiw orthography statement.  
• Bishop, Nancy M. and Mary M. Peterson. 2002. "The Kensiw (Maniq) people."  
• Cooper, Arthur. 2002. "The Lahu Shi people."  
• Green, Julie and Feikje Van der Haak. 2002. "The Bru people in Khong Chiem, Ubon Ratchathani."  
• Kosonen, Kimmo. 2003. Testing Chong orthography in Thailand.  
• Migliazza, Brian. 2002. "The So people."  
• Person, Kirk R. 1999. "Writing Bisu: a community-based approach to orthography development."
• Phillips, Audra. 2002. "The West-Central Thailand Pwo Karen people."  
• Thomas, Dorothy M. 1989. "Changing the Northern Khmer orthography."
• TU-SIL-LRDP Committee, editors. 2002. Minority language orthography in Thailand: five case studies: in honor of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej on the auspicious occasion of his Sixth Cycle Birthday.  

Particles

• Person, Kirk R. 2000. Sentence final particles in Bisu narrative.
• Rischel, Jørgen. 2006. "The "definite article" in Mlabri."

Passive voice

• Nomura, Naomitsu Mikami. 1992. "A semantic analysis of the so-called passive verbs in some Indochinese languages."  

Phonetics

• Bishop, Nancy M. and Mary M. Peterson. 1994. Kensiw rhyming list.  
• Bishop, Nancy. 1991. A preliminary analysis of Maniq oral monophthongs.  
• Thomas, David D. 1977. "Articulatory phonetic parameters."

Phonological change

• Suwilai Premsrirat. 1999. "Phonological variation and change in the Khmu dialects of northern Thailand."  

Phonological descriptions

• Bennett, J. Fraser. 1994. "Iambicity in Thai."
• Bennett, J. Fraser. 2005. "Reanalyzing Thai glottal codas: probability, perception, and displaced contrast."  
• Bishop, Nancy M. 1996. "A preliminary description of Kensiw (Maniq) phonology."  
• Bishop, Nancy. 1991. A preliminary analysis of Maniq oral monophthongs.  
• Cooper, Arthur D. 1999. "An acoustic phonetic analysis of the vowels and tones of Lahu Shi Balan."
• Cooper, Arthur D. and Pamela J. Cooper. 1996. "A preliminary phonology of the Banlan dialect of Lahu Shi."
• Cooper, Michael and Susan Cooper. 1999. "A preliminary phonological analysis of Huay Jo Khmu."
• Isara Choosri. 2009. "Chung (Saoch) of Thailand and Cambodia: phonological and lexical comparisons."  
• Mayuree Thawornpat. 2007. "Gong phonological characteristics."
• Migliazza, Brian. 2003. Some expressives in So.
• Miller, John D. and Carolyn P. Miller. 1995. "Notes on phonology and orthography in several Katuic Mon-Khmer groups in Northeast Thailand."  
• Paulsen, Debbie. 1996. "Phonology in Plang."
• Pornsawan Ploykaew. 2001. "The phonology of Samre."  
• Sujaritlak Deepadung. 1996. "Lexica: Mon et Nong Duu, Lamphun Province."  
• Suriya Ratanakul. 1996. "Lawa ləsom Lɛ poetry revisited."  
• Suwilai Premsrirat. 1996. "Phonological characteristics of So (Thavung), a Vietic language of Thailand."  
• Thomas, David D. 1988. "Particles and waves in language."

Phonology

• Chalermchai, Chaichompoo. 2006. "Segmental variation of Vietnamese in northeastern Thailand."
• Paulsen, Debbie. 1992. "A phonological reconstruction of Proto-Plang."  
• Preecha Sukkasem. 2005. "Phonological variations and changes due to language contact: a case study of consonants in four Kuai-Kui (Suai) dialects."  
• Siripen Ungsitipoonporn. 2009. "The Bangkok Hakka phonology."  
• Thomas, David D. 1981. "Phonemics and polysystemic phonology."

Phrase books

• Botsonthana phasa Khamen Surin: phonngan khong Sathaban Wichai Phasa læ Watthanatham phu'a Phatthana Chonnabot, Mahawitthayala Mahidon. 1984. (Khmer, Northern)

Pragmatics

• Hanna, William J. 1982. "Pragmatics: a question of alternatives."

Primers

• Li KʼNyaw Sgaw Khaw hti ta phalo de kweh lo. 1995. (Karen, S’gaw)
• Ta ma lo kweh pwa KʼNyaw klo. 1996. (Karen, S’gaw)
• Ta ma lo pha pwa KʼNyaw klo. 1996. (Karen, S’gaw)

Pronouns

• Jenner, Philip N. 1992. "Observations on Old Khmer ‘man’."  
• Jenny, Mathias. 2003. "New infixes in spoken Mon."  

Propositions

• Thomas, David D. 1972. "Comments on sentences, propositions, and Notes on Translation 37."

Proverbs and maxims

• Sophana Srichampa. 2006. "Thai and Vietnamese proverbs and common expressions: the influence of Buddhist and local beliefs."

Readers

• Goephlong pong. 2001. (Karen, Pwo Eastern)
• Goephlong pong. 2001. (Karen, Pwo Western Thailand)
• nangsue nitian khmerlue. 1987. (Khmer, Northern)

Reciprocal

• Morev, Lev. 1996. "Reciprocal and cooperative in Tai."  

Reduplication

• Migliazza, Brian. 2005. "Some expressives in So."  

Relative clauses

• Hanna, William J. 1999. "Relative clauses in Tai Lue."

Reviews

• Bauer, Robert S. 2000. Review of: Nghe an Khmu-Vietnamese-Thai-English dictionary, by Suwilai Premsrirat and others.  
• Migliazza, Brian. 1998. Review of: Linguistic diversity and national unity: Language ecology in Thailand, by William Smalley.  
• Saurman, Mary Beth. 2003. Sounding the center: history and aesthetics in Thai Buddhist performance, by Deborah Wong.
• Solnit, David. 1992. Review of: a Thai-Sgaw Karen dictionary, by Suriya Ratanakul, compiler.  
• Thomas, David D. 1983. Review of: a lexicon of Khmer morphology, by Philip N. Jenner and Saveros Pou.

Semantics

• Thomas, David D. 1972. "Comments on sentences, propositions, and Notes on Translation 37."
• Thomas, David D. 1977. "Noun phrase components."
• Thomas, David D. 1985. "Implied (presupposed) information."

Sentence structure

• Thomas, David D. 1974. "Batteries at other ranks."

Sociolinguistics

• Bishop, Nancy M. 2001. "Sociolinguistic aspects of Northern Aslian languages: a case study of Kensiw (Kensiu) [Baansakai, Yala, Thailand."
• Dawkins, Erin and Cortney Kirkland. 2008. "A sociolinguistic survey of Tai Ya in Thailand."  
• Jordan-Diller, Kari and Jason Diller. 2004. "The Prai of Northern Thailand: a sociolinguistic survey of a Mon-Khmer language."  
• Migliazza, Brian. 1998. A grammar of So - A Mon-Khmer language of northeast Thailand.
• Migliazza, Brian. 1998. Review of: Linguistic diversity and national unity: Language ecology in Thailand, by William Smalley.  
• Migliazza, Brian. 2002. Multilingualism among the So people of Issan.
• Natthida Chakshuraksha. 2005. "The home domain and minority language maintenance: a sociolinguistic view of three Black Tai families in Thailand."  
• Sophana Srichampa. 2009. "Patterns of polite expressions in Vietnamese."  
• Thomas, David D. 1989. "Multilingual societies: Some historical glimpses."
• Thomas, David. 1990. "On the "language" status of Northern Khmer."
• van der Haak, Feikje. 1994. "Benefits of the Ethnolinguistic Mapping Project of Ethnic Groups in Thailand Seminar, held on February 8, 1993, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand."  

Stratificational grammar

• Migliazza, Brian L. 1989. "A brief sketch of Fleming’s stratificational model."

Suprasegmentals

• Bennett, Jefferson Fraser. 1995. Metrical foot structure in Thai and Kayah Li: Optimality-theoretic studies in the prosody of two southeast Asian languages.

Syntactic analysis

• Thomas, David D. 1977. "Sentence components."

Syntax

• Sunee, Kamnuansin. 2003. "Syntactic characteristics of Kasong: an endangered language of Thailand."  

Tagmemic Theory

• Thomas, David D. 1977. "A proposed language model."
• Thomas, David D. 1977. "Prominence."
• Thomas, David D. 1977. "What is tagmemics?."

Teacher's guides

• Rian phasaa Chong eud khamuk, khuumeukhruu. 2002. (Chong)

Tone

• Chommanad Intajamornrak and Theraphan L.-Thongkum. 2009. "Tonal evolution induced by language contact: a case study of the T'in (Lua') language of Nan province, northern Thailand."  
• Paulsen, Debbie. 1996. "Tone and intonation in Plang."
• Person, Kirk R. and Suzanne R. Person. 1996. "Write that tone! language preservation issues in everyday attempts to write Northern Thai tones using Central Thai script."
• Saurman, Mary E. 1999. "The agreement of Thai speech tones and melodic pitches."
• Siripen Ungsitipoonporn. 2009. "The Bangkok Hakka phonology."  
• Suwilai Premsrirat. 2001. "Tonogenesis in Khmu dialects of SEA."  
• Suwilai Premsrirat. 2004. "Register complex and tonogenesis in Khmu dialects."  
• Tumtavitikul, Apiluck. 1994. "Perhaps, the tones are in the consonants?."  

Topic

• Warotamasikkhadit, Udom. 1997. "Fronting and backing topicalization in Thai."  

Toponymy

• Isara, Choosri. 2004. "'Châak' and other Chong place names: linguistic remains of a Mon-Khmer people in Eastern Thailand."  
• Pranee Kullavanijaya. 1997. "Village names in Guangxi Province and northeastern Thailand."

Transition primers

• Rian phasaa Chong eud khamuk, khuumeukhruu. 2002. (Chong)
• Rian phasaa Chong eud khamuk. 2002. (Chong)

Transitivity

• Ratanakul, Suriya. 1981. "Transitivity and causation in Sgaw Karen."

Translation

• Doty, Stephen Howard. 2007. The paradigm shift in Bible translation in the modern era, with special focus on Thai.

Typology

• Amara Prasithrathsint and Natchanan Yaowapat. 2009. "A typology of relative clauses in Mainland Southeast Asian languages."  

Verb phrases

• Thomas, David D. 1978. "Verb phrase components."

Verbs

• Prang Thiengburanathum and Audra Phillips. 2007. "Verb classes in Thai."

Vocabularies and phrase books

• Bishop, Nancy M. and Mary M. Peterson. 1994. "Kensiw glossary."  
• Suwilai Premsrirat. 1998. "So (Thavung)-English-Thai glossary part I."  
• Suwilai Premsrirat. 1999. "So (Thavung)-English-Thai glossary part II."  

Voice quality

• Preecha Sukgasame. 1993. "Correlates of the register complex in Kuay."  

Vowels

• Naraset Pisitpanporn. 1998. "Khmer vowels in transition."  
• Phanintra Teeranon. 2007. "The intrinsic pitch and intrinsic length of high and low vowels in Mon-Khmer language."
• Puttachart Dhananjayananda. 1997. "The emergence of the length distinction in the mid-front vowels ‘e-ee’ in Thai."
• Tumtavitikul, Apiluck. 1996. "The mid central vowel [ə] in Thai."  
• Wayland, Ratree P. and Allard Jongman. 2001. "Chanthaburi Khmer vowels: phonetic and phonemic analyses."  

Word lists

• Bishop, Nancy M. and Mary M. Peterson. 1994. Kensiw rhyming list.  
• Miller, John D. 1994. "Evaluation of the wordlist used in a Mon-Khmer research project in Northeast Thailand."
• Phaiboon, Duangchan. 2006. "Glossary of Aslian languages: the northern Aslian languages of southern Thailand."
• Prachakij-karacak Phraya, David Thomas andSophana Srichampa. 1995. Some languages of Siam.
• SIL MSEAG, compilers. 2002. Southeast Asia 436 word list.  
• Sujaritlak Deepadung. 1996. "Lexica: Mon et Nong Duu, Lamphun Province."  

Workbooks

• Ta ma lo kweh pwa KʼNyaw klo. 1996. (Karen, S’gaw)

Writer's workshops

• Malone, Dennis L. 2001. "Language development in a minority language community: report of the Chong Writers Workshop, Klong Phlu Village, Khao Kichakut District Chantaburi Province, 4-6 August 2000."  

Writing

• [Body book]. 1995. (Kensiu)  

Writing systems

• Hanna, William J. 1983. "700 years of Thai writing."
• Person, Kirk R. and Suzanne R. Person. 1996. "Write that tone! language preservation issues in everyday attempts to write Northern Thai tones using Central Thai script."