This page lists all posts in the category 'Ideophones' on The Ideophone.
Ideophones are marked words that vividly evoke sensory events. They are found abundantly in Asian and African languages, as well as in some native American languages. As a class of words, they are relatively rare in Indo-European languages.
...they are playthings, not the tools of language.
Max Müller, 1862
Half-baked ideas, raw data, and sometimes a glimmer of insight. The Ideophone is a blog by Mark Dingemanse, PhD student in the Language and Cognition group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Reach me at firstname.lastname@mpi.nl.
Damit war auch die Frage nach einem passenden Ort für die Haupt-Station gelöst. Das schön, frei und gesund und doch nicht allzu hoch gelegene Akpafu, die zweitgrößte Stadt in Boem, war der geeignete Ort.
Andreas Pfisterer, 1904, on the place where I do fieldwork.