One of the goals of The Ideophone, besides functioning as a sounding board for ideas on expressivity and sound symbolism…
Zotero takes it name from an Albanian verb minus some morphology.
I wasn’t planning to make this a software weblog, but I’ll make an exception for Zotero because I think fellow…
Having been a small and quite isolated language for centuries, Siwu was relatively late to attract attention from outsiders. Europeans…
The most common use of the term ‘ideophone’ today is as a term for a lexical or grammatical category of words. This use goes back to C.M. Doke, who introduced the term in this sense for the description of Bantu languages. However, Doke did not coin the term. Who did, and how was it used before Doke?
Some years ago I was following a course by Maarten Kossmann on Tuareg (Tamasheq, Tamajeq, Tamahaq). It was thoroughly enjoyable. After the first lecture we were all alotted a letter of the great Dictionnaire Touareg — Français (a consonant, obviously), and for the remainder of the course these 15 to 40 dictionary pages would form the basis for a number of excercises in the weeks to follow. Here I write about what I found on expressive verbs.