Ideophones, mimetics and expressives / edited by Kimi Akita, Purashanto Parudeshi.
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- English
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- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
- Summary:
- This volume explores new frontiers in the linguistic study of iconic lexemes known as ideophones, mimetics, and expressives. A large part of the literature on this long-neglected word class has been dedicated to the description of its sound symbolism, marked morphophonology, and grammatical status in individual languages. Drawing on data from Asian (especially Japanese), African, American, and European languages, the twelve chapters in this volume aim to establish common grounds for theoretical and crosslinguistic discussions of the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, acquisition, and variation of iconic lexemes. Not only researchers who are interested in linguistic iconicity but also theoretical linguists and typologists will benefit from the updated insights presented in each study.
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- Introduction ideophones, mimetics, and expressives: Theoretical and typological perspectives / Kimi Akita and Prashant Pardeshi
- Part I. Phonology and morphology: 1. 'Ideophone' as a comparative concept / Mark Dingemanse
- 2. The phonological structure of Japanese mimetics and motherese / Haruo Kubozono
- 3. Monosyllabic and disyllabic roots in the diachronic development of Japanese mimetics / Shoko Hamano
- 4. Cross-linguistic variation in phonaesthemic canonicity, with special reference to Korean and English / Nahyun Kwon
- 5. Classification of nominal compounds containing mimetics: A Construction Morphology perspective / Kiyoko Toratani
- Part II. Semantics and pragmatics: 6. Towards a semantic typological classification of motion ideophones: The motion semantic grid / Iraide Ibarretxe-AntunĚano
- 7. The sensori-semantic clustering of ideophonic meaning in Pastaza Quichua / Janis B. Nuckolls
- 8. The power of 'not saying who' in Czech onomaopoeia / Masako U. Fidler
- 9. Mimetics, gaze, and facial expression in a multimodal corpus of Japanese / Kimi Akita
- Part III. Language acquisition and multilingualism: 10. The structure of mimetic verbs in child and adult Japanese / Keiko Murasugi
- 11. Iconicity in L2 Japanese speakers' multi-modal language use: Mimetics and co-speech gesture in relation to L1 and Japanese proficiency / Noriko Iwasaki and Keiko Yoshioka
- 12. Ideophones as a measure of multilingualism / G. Tucker Childs
- Name index
- Subject index
- Language index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
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