Thai: An Essential Grammar

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Routledge, Oct 10, 2017 - Foreign Language Study - 790 pages

Praise for the First Edition

“essential reading for any physical scientist who is interested in performing biological research.” ?Contemporary Physics

"an ambitious text.... Each chapter contains protocols and the conceptual reasoning behind them, which is often useful to physicists performing biological experiments for the first time." –Physics Today

This fully updated and expanded text is the best starting point for any student or researcher in the physical sciences to gain firm grounding in the techniques employed in molecular biophysics and quantitative biology. It includes brand new chapters on gene expression techniques, advanced techniques in biological light microscopy (super-resolution, two-photon, and fluorescence lifetime imaging), holography, and gold nanoparticles used in medicine. The author shares invaluable practical tips and insider’s knowledge to simplify potentially confusing techniques. The reader is guided through easy-to-follow examples carried out from start to finish with practical tips and insider’s knowledge. The emphasis is on building comfort with getting hands "wet" with basic methods and finally understanding when and how to apply or adapt them to address different questions.

Jay L. Nadeau is a scientific researcher and head of the Biomedical Engineering in Advanced Applications of Quantum, Oscillatory, and Nanotechnological Systems (BEAAQONS) lab at Caltech and was previously associate professor of biomedical engineering and physics at McGill University.

 

Contents

Introduction
1
Chapter 1 Pronunciation
5
Chapter 2 The writing system
11
Chapter 3 Nouns classifiers and noun phrases
25
Chapter 4 Pronouns
42
Chapter 5 Verbs
61
Chapter 6 Adjectives stative verbs and adjectival constructions
94
Chapter 7 Adverbs and adverbial constructions
109
Chapter 11 Negation
158
Chapter 12 Questions
174
Chapter 13 Numbers measurement and quantification
194
Chapter 14 Time
216
Chapter 15 Thai speech conventions
230
Appendix 1 Romanisation systems
246
and bpen a summary
251
Glossary
256

Chapter 8 Location markers and other prepositions
123
Chapter 9 Clauses and sentences
133
Chapter 10 Sentence particles
145

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About the author (2017)

David Smyth is Senior Lecturer in Thai at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

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