Ideophones /
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; ideoph...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
©2001.
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Colección: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 44. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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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Notas: | Papers presented at the 1st International Symposium on Ideophones held Jan. 1999, St. Augustin, Ger. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 434 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-423) and indexes. |
ISBN: | 1588110192 9781588110190 9789027297235 9027297231 1282161741 9781282161740 9786612161742 6612161744 |
ISSN: | 0167-7373 ; |