A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE CHINESE PREPOSITION “于” (YÚ) AND THE THAI PREPOSITIONS “เมื่อ”, “ณ”, AND “ใน”
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In this study, a contrastive analysis of the Chinese preposition “于” and the Thai prepositions “เมื่อ” [mɯaː41], “ณ” [na45] and “ใน” [nai33] was conducted. Prepositions play a central role in expressing temporal and spatial relations in Chinese and Thai; however, they often constitute a major difficulty for learners in cross-linguistic acquisition. Moreover, targeted contrastive studies comparing “于” with these three Thai prepositions remain limited. Based on authentic data from the Peking University Chinese Corpus (CCL) and the Thai National Corpus (TNC), approximately 500 instances of the Chinese preposition “于” and 300 instances of the Thai prepositions “เมื่อ” [mɯaː41], “ณ” [na45], and “ใน” [nai33] were selected and analyzed. Using descriptive and comparative methods, the study examined similarities and differences across three dimensions: word formation, semantics, and syntactic functions. The findings indicate that the Thai preposition “ณ” [na45] exhibits the highest degree of correspondence with the Chinese preposition “于”.
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