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Folk definitions of ideophones
Field manual volume 13(pp. 24-29).Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics., 2010 Ideophones are marked words that depict sensory events, for example English hippety-hoppety ‘in a limping and hobbling manner’ or Siwu mukumuku ‘mouth movements of a toothless person eating’. They typically have special sound patterns and distinct grammatical properties.
Dingemanse, M.
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Ideophone Integration and Expressiveness in Wao Terero [PDF]
, 2018 Ideophones, which “simulate an event, an emotion, a perception through language,” have been claimed to be a universal category (Voeltz & Kilian-Hatz 2001:3); however, they are generally understudied and are often considered marginal to the linguistic
Fawcett, Alexia Zandra
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Corpus-driven Bantu Lexicography, part 2 : lemmatisation and rulers for Lusoga [PDF]
, 2018 This article is the second in a trilogy that deals with corpus-driven Bantu lexicography, which is illustrated for Lusoga. The focus here is on the macrostructure and in particular on the building of a lemmatised frequency list directly within a ...
de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice +1 more
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Cognitive LinguisticsIdeophones are marked words which depict sensory imagery and are usually considered iconic by native speakers (i.e., ideophones sound like what they mean). Owing to shared cross-linguistic characteristics of expressive prosody, reduplication, and unusual
Thompson Arthur Lewis +3 more
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Iconic prosody enhances the depictive power of ideophones
Language and CognitionProsody not only signals the speaker’s cognitive states but can also imitate various concepts. However, previous studies on the latter, the iconic function of prosody, have mostly analyzed novel words and nonlinguistic vocalizations.
Kimi Akita, Shigeto Kawahara
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Translating onomatopoeia from Chinese into Spanish : a corpus-based analysis [PDF]
, 2014 This article analyses how Chinese onomatopoeias have been translated into Spanish. It is based on a corpus of seven contemporary Chinese novels and their respective Spanish translations.
Casas-Tost, Helena
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Ideophones: honing in on a descriptive and typological concept
Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsThis paper introduces the special issue of Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, entitled “Ideophones: honing in on a descriptive and typological concept”, edited by Aimée Lahaussois, Julie Marsault and Yvonne Treis.
Julie Marsault +2 more
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Ideofoni. Una "nuova" categoria grammaticale [PDF]
, 2016 The goal of this work is to investigate the peculiarity of ideophones, an universal linguistic category that \u201cseems to occupy a shadowy world of unofficial linguistic inquiry\u201d (Nuckolls 2001: 132); this is particularly true for the Western ...
Marina Castagneto, Diego Sidraschi
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Teko Ideophones: description of a word class
Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsThe aim of this paper is to present a comprehensive description of the ideophones of Teko, a Tupi language spoken in French Guiana. This word class, previously only briefly described, is defined in this paper through a systematic comparison to nouns and
Françoise Rose
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The Grammaticalization of "Say" and "Do" : An Areal Phenomenon in the Horn of Africa [PDF]
, 2002 The grammaticalization of verbs meaning ‘say' and ‘do', in periphrastic constructions traditionnally named ‘descriptive compounds' allows transcategorial and intracategorial derivation, leading to more or less deep reorganizations of the verbal systems ...
Cohen, David +2 more
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