Such practice is also the norm in scientific and medical writing. As a statistical tendency, last-name citation has been the majority practice among Thai scholars writing for an international linguistics audience, so that is followed here. Apologies are due to those who prefer given (first) name citation.
Thai authors are cited below by family (last) name, with some reluctance. Only selected earlier works of Li, Haudricourt, Gedney, and other pioneers in the field are mentioned here see Huffman (1986a) for fuller listings. (1976) by Khunying Suriya Ratanakul, et al.
For further references on the wider family at its different levels, see other chapters in this volume and Huffman (1986a) anthologies edited by Gething, et al. The main focus here is on Thai only a sample of work on Tai, Kam-Tai and Tai-Kadai is included. Those seriously interested in Thai and in other Tai-Kadai languages will surely need to spend time in Thai university libraries and elsewhere where these illuminating materials are accessible. In particular, books, theses and journal articles written in Thai have generally not been included even though they contain innovative and revealing linguistic research on the language. Omitted below are many studies of merit, especially those in languages other than English. Some attention is also given to how Thai linguistic research and its subfields have developed historically, including how studies cited relate to broader professional background issues, which also may shift diachronically. Studies are selected here because they are representative of ongoing research and because they are useful in providing readers with further bibliography. This is no means a comprehensive linguistic bibliography, which would need several times as many entries.
The purpose of this chapter is to call attention to some five hundred studies of Thai grammar and other aspects of the language. Thai is also by far the most thoroughly described member of the group, with accounts going back several centuries. In some respects it reflects features of the greater grouping as a whole, but in other ways it is exceptional.
Thai is spoken, at least as a second variety, by well over half of the total of 80 or 90 million speakers of Tai-Kadai languages.
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