Redrawing the margins of language: Lessons from research on ideophones
Ideophones (also known as expressives, mimetics or onomatopoeia) have been systematically studied in linguistics since the 1850s, when they were first described as a lexical class of vivid sensory words in West-African languages. This paper surveys the research history of ideophones, from its roots...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/444 |