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Redrawing the margins of language: lessons from research on ideophones
ideophones iconicity linguistic theory language ideology
2018/3/5
Ideophones (also known as expressives or mimetics, and including onomatopoeia) have been systematically studied in linguistics since the 1850s, when they were first described as a lexical class of viv...
An inverse relation between expressiveness and grammatical integration: on the morphosyntactic typology of ideophones, with special reference to Japanese
depiction expressiveness ideophones
2017/8/28
Words and phrases may differ in the extent to which they are susceptible to prosodic foregrounding and expressive morphology: their expressiveness. They may also differ in the degree to which they are...
On the margins of language: Ideophones, interjections and dependencies in linguistic theory
Ideophones interjections
2017/8/28
Linguistic discovery is viewpoint-dependent, just like our ideas about what is marginal and what is central in language. In this essay I consider two supposed marginalia —ideophones and interjections—...
Expressiveness and system integration: On the typology of ideophones, with special reference to Siwu
ideophones expressiveness morphosyntax
2017/8/28
Ideophones are often described as words that are highly expressive and morphosyntactically marginal. A study of ideophones in everyday conversations in Siwu (Kwa, eastern Ghana) reveals a landscape of...
Making new ideophones in Siwu
ideophones conversation depiction iconicity semiotics Siwu creativity
2015/5/5
Ideophones are found in many of the world’s languages. Though they are a major word class on a par with nouns and verbs, their origins are ill-understood, and the question of ideophone creation has be...
Ideophones and gesture in everyday speech
ideophones gesture depiction iconicity iconic gesture composite utterances
2015/4/24
This article examines the relation between ideophones and gestures in a corpus of everyday discourse in Siwu, a richly ideophonic language spoken in Ghana. The overall frequency of ideophone-gesture c...
Ideophones are marked words that depict sensory imagery found in many of the world’s languages. They are noted for their special forms, distinct grammatical behaviour, rich sensory meanings, and inter...
Drawing from a varied corpus spanning several hours and many types of discourse, this paper presents novel facts about ideophone usage in Siwu, a Kwa language from eastern Ghana. It is divided into th...