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phonology of Kafi Noonoo ideophones

Macrolinguistics and Microlinguistics, 2022
This paper is the first and original work on the phonology of Kafi Noonoo ideophones. All of the data used in this study are collected through fieldwork.
Teferi Mulugeta, Girma Mengistu
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Ideophones in the Kru language family

Language in Africa, 2022
In many grammatical descriptions, ideophones are often ignored. In this paper, I attempt to do a preliminary study of ideophones in the Kru language family (Niger Congo).
Lynell Marchese Zogbo
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Description des idéophones en tupuri

Akofena
Résumé : Les idéophones sont des mots permettant d’exprimer une idée dans une langue. Tout comme dans beaucoup de langues africaines, les idéophones sont très productifs en tupuri. Cependant, peu de travaux se sont intéressés à cette catégorie de mots. L’
BABA ATEMGA NDOUWE
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syntax of Amharic ideophones

Macrolinguistics and Microlinguistics, 2022
This study is on Amharic ideophones, a subject that has not been described well in the syntax of Amharic. The data used for the analysis are collected from natural settings of the Amharic-speaking community in Debre Birhan College of Teacher Education ...
Teferi Mulugeta, Bye Yimam
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Ideophones in Kambaata (Cushitic): Grammar, meaning and use

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
In the literature on Cushitic languages, ideophones have often only been treated in a cursory manner. A little explored problem of the synchronic analysis concerns their word class status: do they constitute a word class on their own, or should they be ...
Yvonne Treis
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Ideophones in Motion Event Descriptions in Kupsapiiny and Sidaama: Conceptualization of Manners of Motion as Sounds and Postures

Cognitive Semantics
This paper examines the use of ideophones in motion event descriptions in Kupsapiiny (Southern Nilotic; Uganda; anti-verb-framed with path-affix satellites) and Sidaama (Highland East Cushitic; Ethiopia; verb-framed).
Kazuhiro Kawachi
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Ideophones and sound symbolism in Northern Amis (Austronesian)

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
This is a study of ideophones in Northern Amis, an East Formosan, Austronesian language of Taiwan. Ideophones depict sensory experiences, and they generally have the same phonological and phonotactic properties as other lexemes; however, some ideophones ...
Isabelle Bril
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A Note on Setswana Onomatopoeia

Studies in African Linguistics, 2023
The Setswana language, like other African languages, has a rich word class category of onomatopoeia that are derived from diverse sound sources in the environment of the speakers. Onomatopoeia are sounds imitations.
Andy Chebanne
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In the shadows of gratitude: On mooded spaces of vulnerability and care

Ethos, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 20-36, March 2024.
Abstract Gratitude is a ubiquitous phenomenon in everyday social interactions, yet it has received relatively little attention within anthropology. Past approaches to gratitude have focused on its practical expressions within exchange relationships. In contrast, this article considers the phenomenology of gratitude as a moral mood.
Jason Danely
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The indigenization of Ghanaian Pidgin English

World Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 182-202, March 2024.
Abstract In the world Englishes literature, ‘indigenization’ is shorthand for the localization of Outer Circle Englishes in former exploitation colonies like Ghana. However, the localization of Ghanaian English has been continually reversed by ‘corrective’ realignment with world standard English through institutional regimes.
Kofi Yakpo
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