What do we really know about ideophones?

September 1st, 2009
by Mark Dingemanse
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Slides for my recent presentation at the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics. Incomprehensible without the handout. Since this is an overview talk, there is some overlap with presentations given in Berkeley (RRG, August 9) and London (SOAS, June 3).

I'm using the following working definition of ideophones: "marked words that vividly depict sensory events" (elaborated here; your comments are welcome).

Cite as:

  1. Dingemanse, Mark. 2009. 'What do we really know about ideophones?' Paper presented at the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics, August 21, Köln.
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