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Iconicity as an organizing principle of the lexicon. [PDF]

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111 Somali ideophones*

Journal of African Cultural Studies, 1998
Abstract The paper presents the first systematic account of a substantial number of Somali ideophones. The ideophones are first defined according to a number of phonological and morphosyntactic criteria, followed by a discussion of the semantic fields covered by ideophones in Somali compared with other African languages (Section 1).
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Ideophones in Moro

Faits de Langues, 2020
Abstract This article presents a descriptive study of ideophones in Moro, addressing both their structural characteristics and usage, with data from the Thetogovela dialect. We describe their sound patterns, word categorization and placement within sentences, and discuss their meaning and conventionalization. Moro ideophones convey a wide range of
Angelo Ali Naser, Sharon Rose
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Chinese ideophone database

2020
Linguistic database project of Chinese ...
Thompson, Arthur, Van Hoey, Thomas
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Ideophones

2001
The present volume represents a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Ideophones held in January 1999 in St. Augustin, Germany. They center around the following hypotheses: Ideophones are universal; and constitute a grammatical category in all languages of the world; ideophones and similar words have a special dramaturgic ...
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Ideophones, rhemes, interpretants

Pragmatics and Society, 2014
This commentary considers the depictive quality of ideophones within the context of a general semiotic. I seek to expand the limited uptake of iconicity in linguistic theory from a resemblance between sign and object along Peirce’s second trichotomy (icon, index, symbol) to discuss iconicity from the often overlooked perspective of Peirce’s third ...
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Ideophones

2006
AbstractThe major word classes nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, even interjections or exclamations as well as function words such as adpositions and particles are natural subjects of detailed descriptions in grammars. By contrast, words subsumed under the term “ideophone” are widely ignored in most grammars or are hard to find as a separate word ...
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Translating African ideophones

Perspectives, 2001
Abstract Ideophones are linguistic devices that feature prominently in African discourse and are part of the identity of African oral literature. The present article discusses the translation into English of African ideophones, using the The Ozidi Saga, an Ijo epic narrative recorded and translated into English by the Nigerian writer J. P.
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