Khanittanan Wilaiwan

Portrait of Khanittanan   Wilaiwan

Wilaiwan Khanittanan is a Thai linguist and Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistic, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University, Bangkok, who has been studying the interaction of Khmer and Thai languages through modern times.

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  • วิไลวรรณ ขนิษฐานันท์ ภาษาแสก โรงพิมพ์มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์, 2519 – 1976.
  • Saek Revisited”, in Papers in Southeast Asian Linguistics 6, Tai Studies in Honor of William J. Gedney, ed. T.W. Gething and N.D. Liem, Pacific Linguistics, Australian National University, 1979: 109 – 118. 
  • How Much is English Influencing the Language of the Educated Bangkok Thais?”, in South-east Asian Linguistic Studies 4, ed. N.D. Liem, Pacific Linguistics, Australian National University, re1979: 55 – 59.
  • Usage of address forms: a comparative study of three social groups”, in International Conference on Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 1984: 141 – 154.
  • Thai written discourse: a change to a more autonomous style?”, in The International Symposium on Language and Linguistics, ed. C. Bamroongraks et al., Bangkok, Thammasat University, 1988: 120 – 128.
  • Current studies of Tai in India”, in The International Conference on Tai Studies, ed. S. Burusphat, Bangkok, Mahidol University, Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development, 1998: 421 – 428.
  • Khmero-Thai: The great change in the history of the Thai language of the Chao Phraya Basin”, in Papers from the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, ed. S. Burusphat, Tempe, Arizona State University, Program for Southeast Asian Studies, 2004: 375 – 391.
  • [ed. with Paul Sidwell] SEALS XIV‑1, Papers from the 14th annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, Canberra, ANU, 2004. ISBN: 9780858835856.
  • Taoist influence in Tai languages and cultures”, in SEALS XIV‑1, 2004: 185 – 92.
  • [with Anthony V.N. Diller] Syntatic Enquiry as a Cultura Activity”, in Ethnosyntax: Explorations in Grammar and Culture,  
    N. J. Enfield ed., Oxford University Press, 2007: 31 – 51. ISBN 978−0−19−926650−0.
  • Language of the news media in Thailand”, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2007 (186): 29 – 41.
  • Ancient links between Thai and Vietnam: Evidence from cognates, Sukhothai inscriptions, and traditional calendrical terms for animals”, SEALS 23, 2013.
  • Attitudes towards aesthetic aspects of Thai grammar”, in The Aesthetics of Grammar, Sound and Meaning in the Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia, Jeffrey P. Williams ed., Cambridge University Press, 2013: 167 – 176. ISBN
    9781139030489. 
  • Reinterpreting Inscription I”, Journal of Language and Linguistics ภาษาและภาษาศาสตร์ 27(2), BE 2552 – 2019: 67 – 74.