TY  - BOOK
AU  - Voeltz,Erhard Friedrich Karl
AU  - Kilian-Hatz,Christa
ED  - International Symposium on Ideophones
TI  - Ideophones
T2  - Typological studies in language,
SN  - 1588110192
AV  - P299.I34 I34 2001eb
U1  - 415 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Amsterdam, Philadelphia
PB  - J. Benjamins
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Ideophone
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Idéophones
KW  - Congrès
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Grammar & Punctuation
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Syntax
KW  - fast
KW  - Ideofonen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Conference papers and proceedings
N1  - Papers presented at the 1st International Symposium on Ideophones held Jan. 1999, St. Augustin, Ger; Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-423) and indexes; Machine generated contents note; Ideophones in interaction with intonation and the expression of new information in some indigenous languages of Australia; Barry Alpher --; Ideophones and the nature of the adjective word class in Ewe; Felix K. Ameka --; Ideophones and compound verbs in Wolaitta; Azeb Amha --; Research on ideophones, whither hence?: The need for a social theory of ideophones; G. Tucker Childs --; Setswana ideophones as uninflected predicative lexemes; Denis Creissels --; Phonosemantic correspondences in Emai attributive ideophones; Francis O. Egbokhare --; Defining ideophones in Mundang; Stefan Elders --; Some expressive and borrwed elements in the lexicon of Finnish dialects; Vesa Jarva --; ideophone in Didinga; Nicky de Jong --; Ideophones in Ciluba; N.S. Kabuta --; Universality and diversity: Ideophones from Baka and Kxoe; Christa Kilian-Hatz --; Expressives and iconicity in the lexicon; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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 striki
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