Ideophones

Author : Erhard Friedrich Karl Voeltz,Christa Kilian-Hatz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027229465

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Ideophones by Erhard Friedrich Karl Voeltz,Christa Kilian-Hatz Pdf

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.

Author : Kimi Akita,Prashant Pardeshi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262608

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Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives by Kimi Akita,Prashant Pardeshi Pdf

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.

Author : John Haiman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107069602

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Ideophones and the Evolution of Language by John Haiman Pdf

This book argues that ideophones provide the 'missing link' in our knowledge of how communication has evolved to become the spoken language of today.

Author : George Tucker Childs
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027226067

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An Introduction to African Languages by George Tucker Childs Pdf

This book introduces beginning students and non-specialists to the diversity and richness of African languages. In addition to providing a solid background to the study of African languages, the book presents linguistic phenomena not found in European languages. A goal of this book is to stimulate interest in African languages and address the question: What makes African languages so fascinating? The orientation adopted throughout the book is a descriptive one, which seeks to characterize African languages in a relatively succinct and neutral manner, and to make the facts accessible to a wide variety of readers. The author's lengthy acquaintance with the continent and field experiences in western, eastern, and southern Africa allow for both a broad perspective and considerable depth in selected areas. The original examples are often the author's own but also come from other sources and languages not often referenced in the literature. This text also includes a set of sound files illustrating the phenomena under discussion, be they the clicks of Khoisan, talking drums, or the ideophones (words like English lickety-split) found almost everywhere, which will make this book a valuable resource for teacher and student alike.

Author : William E. Welmers,Wm. E. Welmers,William Everett Welmers
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0520022106

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African Language Structures by William E. Welmers,Wm. E. Welmers,William Everett Welmers Pdf

Retells the Cheyenne legend in which a girl and her seven chosen brothers become the Big Dipper.

Author : Leanne Hinton,Johanna Nichols,John J. Ohala
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521026776

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Sound Symbolism by Leanne Hinton,Johanna Nichols,John J. Ohala Pdf

A study of the relationship between the sound of an utterance and its meaning.

Author : Irina Nikolaeva,Maria Tolskaya
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110849035

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A Grammar of Udihe by Irina Nikolaeva,Maria Tolskaya Pdf

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

Author : G. Tucker Childs
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110810882

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A Grammar of Kisi by G. Tucker Childs Pdf

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality.

Author : John M. Mugane
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1592211550

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The Linguistic Typology and Representation of African Languages by John M. Mugane Pdf

For the thirty-third consecutive year, the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) has provided the major forum for the discussion of linguistic data geared towards understanding how African languages are constituted, acquired and used. This volume represents a selection of 25 peer-reviewed papers from the 33rd AWAL held in March 2002 at Ohio University in Athens. The papers cover language acquisition, syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, as well as language use and function in Africa.

Author : Osamu Hieda,Christa König,Hirosi Nakagawa
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273956

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Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas by Osamu Hieda,Christa König,Hirosi Nakagawa Pdf

Is Africa a linguistic area (Heine & Leyew 2008)? The present volume consists of sixteen papers highlighting the linguistic geography of Africa, covering, in particular, southern Africa with its Khoisan languages. A wide range of phenomena are discussed to give an overview of the pattern of social, cultural, and linguistic interaction that characterizes Africa's linguistic geography. Most contributors to the volume discuss language contact and areal diffusion in Africa, although some demonstrate, with examples from non-African linguistic data, including Amazonian and European languages, how language contact may lead to structural convergence. Others investigate contact phenomena in social-cultural behavior. The volume makes a large contribution toward bringing generalized theory to data-oriented discussions. It is intended to stimulate further research on contact phenomena in Africa. For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co.

Author : Angela Bartens
Publisher : Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029053498

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Ideophones and Sound Symbolism in Atlantic Creoles by Angela Bartens Pdf

Author : Keith Allan
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1102 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0080959695

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Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics by Keith Allan Pdf

Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics is a comprehensive new reference work aiming to systematically describe all aspects of the study of meaning in language. It synthesizes in one volume the latest scholarly positions on the construction, interpretation, clarification, obscurity, illustration, amplification, simplification, negotiation, contradiction, contraction and paraphrasing of meaning, and the various concepts, analyses, methodologies and technologies that underpin their study. It examines not only semantics but the impact of semantic study on related fields such as morphology, syntax, and typologically oriented studies such as ‘grammatical semantics’, where semantics has made a considerable contribution to our understanding of verbal categories like tense or aspect, nominal categories like case or possession, clausal categories like causatives, comparatives, or conditionals, and discourse phenomena like reference and anaphora. COSE also examines lexical semantics and its relation to syntax, pragmatics, and cognitive linguistics; and the study of how ‘logical semantics’ develops and thrives, often in interaction with computational linguistics. As a derivative volume from Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition, it comprises contributions from 150 of the foremost scholars of semantics in their various specializations and draws on 20+ years of development in the parent work in a compact and affordable format. Principally intended for tertiary level inquiry and research, this will be invaluable as a reference work for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as academics inquiring into the study of meaning and meaning relations within languages. As semantics is a centrally important and inherently cross-cutting area within linguistics it will therefore be relevant not just for semantics specialists, but for most linguistic audiences. The first encyclopedia ever published in this fascinating and diverse field Combines the talents of the world’s leading semantics specialists The latest trends in the field authoritatively reviewed and interpreted in context of related disciplines Drawn from the richest, most authoritative, comprehensive and internationally acclaimed reference resource in the linguistics area Compact and affordable single volume reference format

Author : Pamela Perniss,Olga Fischer,Christina Ljungberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261410

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Operationalizing Iconicity by Pamela Perniss,Olga Fischer,Christina Ljungberg Pdf

The Iconicity in Language and Literature series has long been dedicated to the recognition and understanding of the pervasiveness of iconicity in language in its many forms and functions. The present volume, divided into four sections, brings together and unifies different perspectives on iconicity. Chapters in the first section (Iconicity in language) provide linguistic analyses of systems of iconic forms in different languages, across both space (areally) and time (diachronically). The second section (Iconicity in literature) is concerned with stylistic analyses of iconicity in literature, in both poetry and prose and across a range of devices and genres. The third section (Iconicity in visual media) highlights the use and effects of iconicity in pictorial, photographic and cinematic media. The final section (Iconicity in semiotic analysis) offers a theoretical perspective, targeting an operationalisation of iconicity with respect to the relationship between types and subtypes of Peircean signs.

Author : Rainer Vossen,Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191007378

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The Oxford Handbook of African Languages by Rainer Vossen,Gerrit J. Dimmendaal Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in African languages, drawing on insights from anthropological linguistics, typology, historical and comparative linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Africa is believed to host at least one third of the world's languages, usually classified into four phyla - Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Khoisan - which are then subdivided into further families and subgroupings. This volume explores all aspects of research in the field, beginning with chapters that cover the major domains of grammar and comparative approaches. Later parts provide overviews of the phyla and subfamilies, alongside grammatical sketches of eighteen representative African languages of diverse genetic affiliation. The volume additionally explores multiple other topics relating to African languages and linguistics, with a particular focus on extralinguistic issues: language, cognition, and culture, including colour terminology and conversation analysis; language and society, including language contact and endangerment; language and history; and language and orature. This wide-ranging handbook will be a valuable reference for scholars and students in all areas of African linguistics and anthropology, and for anyone interested in descriptive, documentary, typological, and comparative linguistics.

Author : Eva van Lier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1137 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192594365

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The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes by Eva van Lier Pdf

This handbook explores multiple facets of the study of word classes, also known as parts of speech or lexical categories. These categories are of fundamental importance to linguistic theory and description, both formal and functional, and for both language-internal analyses and cross-linguistic comparison. The volume consists of five parts that investigate word classes from different angles. Chapters in the first part address a range of fundamental issues including diversity and unity in word classes around the world, categorization at different levels of structure, the distinction between lexical and functional words, and hybrid categories. Part II examines the treatment of word classes across a wide range of contemporary linguistic theories, such as Cognitive Grammar, Minimalist Syntax, and Lexical Functional Grammar, while the focus of Part III is on individual word classes, from major categories such as verb and noun to minor ones such as adpositions and ideophones. Part IV provides a number of cross-linguistic case studies, exploring word classes in families including Afroasiatic, Sinitic, Mayan, Austronesian, and in sign languages. Chapters in the final part of the book discuss word classes from the perspective of various sub-disciplines of linguistics, ranging from first and second language acquisition to computational and corpus linguistics. Together, the contributions showcase the importance of word classes for the whole discipline of linguistics, while also highlighting the many ongoing debates in the areas and outlining fruitful avenues for future research.