IdeophonesErhard Friedrich Karl Voeltz, Christa Kilian-Hatz 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 function that differs from all other word classes: they simulate an event, an emotion, a perception through language. In addition to this unique function, a good number of formal parallels can be observed. The languages dealt with here display strikingly similar patterns of derivational processes involving ideophones. An equally widespread common feature is the introduction of ideophones via a verbum dicendi or complementizer. Another observation concerns the sound-symbolic behavior of ideophones. Thus the word formation of ideophones differs from other words in their tendency for iconicity and sound-symbolism. Finally it is made clear that ideophones are part of spoken language the language register, where gestures are used rather than written language. |
Contents
Ideophones and the nature of the adjective word class in Ewe | 25 |
Ideophones and compound verbs in Wolaitta | 49 |
The need for a social theory | 63 |
Phonosemantic correspondences in Emai attributive ideophones | 87 |
Some expressive and borrowed elements in the lexicon of Finnish | 111 |
Ideophones in Ciluba | 139 |
Ideophones from Baka and Kxoe | 155 |
Expressives and iconicity in the lexicon | 165 |
Ideophones in Pastaza Quechua | 271 |
Le statut des idéophones en gbaya | 287 |
Iconic morphology and word formation in Ilocano | 303 |
Testing hypotheses about African ideophones | 321 |
Ideophonic adverbs and manner gaps in Emai | 339 |
Ideophonelike characteristics of uninflected predicates in Jaminjung | 355 |
La formation des radicaux déidéophonique et des idéophones | 375 |
A comparison of some Southeast Asian ideophones with some African | 385 |
The ideophone as a linguistic rebel | 183 |
Ideophones as the source of verbs in Northern Australian languages | 205 |
Ideophones in the BaltoFinnic languages | 223 |
Are ideophones really as weird and extrasystematic as linguists make | 251 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adjective class adverbes-adjectifs African ideophones African languages African Linguistics Alpher Anttila Australian languages Baka Balto-Finnic Balto-Finnic languages Bantu characteristics Childs clause color consonant clusters constraint construction coverbs déidéophonique derived describes deverbal dialect Didinga Emai Estonian example expressive final Finnish formal function Gbaya Gbeya Gooniyandi grammatical grammaticalization ground group II ideophones Hausa hierarchies iconic IDEO ideophonic adjectives ideophonic adverbs ideophonic words Ilocano infix intonation Jaminjung Kambera Kilian-Hatz Kxoe lexical items lexicon manner marked markedness marker meaning morphemes morphological narrative nasal nominal non-ideophonic Noss nouns occur ólí onomatopoeic onomatopoetic Pacoh paper Pastaza Quechua patterns phones phonological phonosemantic phonotactic prefix properties radicaux reduplication refer Samarin schème semantic sentence Setswana sound symbolism speakers speech stem structure Studies suffix syllable syntactic tonal tone types typological uninflected University verb verb root vowel Wanto Wolaitta word category word class Yir-Yoront Zulu
Popular passages
Page 420 - COLLOQUES INTERNATIONAUX DU CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE LES LANGUES SANS TRADITION ECRITE : METHODES D'ENQUETE ET DE DESCRIPTION (Nice, 28 juin - 2 juillet 1971). Préface, par Gabriel MANESSY et Jacqueline MC THOMAS.