While I’m busy analysing conversational data from the last two fieldtrips, my plan is treat you to a few fine…
Let me draw your attention to the newly added quote at the top right of this page: “…they are playthings,…
Great news for those who are into visual corpus linguistics but don’t work on SAE languages: since July, Wordle handles…
drizzle by +lyn (Flickr) Without wanting to detract from the supreme rendering of bíààà in the previous post, here is…
There are several ideophones in Siwu that have to do with silence. Here are a few examples: mì-lo kanananana! 2PL-be.silent…
Lots of readers looked at the challenge I posted last week (my blog statistics say more than 450 views for…
I recently came across Many Eyes, a nifty data visualisation tool by IBM’s Visual Communication Lab. It has lots of…
A while ago I spent some time with a language assistant to work through a list of the Siwu ideophones I collected so far. There were some interesting metalinguistic comments on the function of ideophones. Here are three representative exchanges.
Hello from the field! I’m currently on a five-week trip to Kawu in the beautiful Volta Region, eastern Ghana (see…
Today’s posting brings you the second part of Pfisterer’s 1904 article (see the previous posting for details on the context…
One of the goals of The Ideophone, besides functioning as a sounding board for ideas on expressivity and sound symbolism…
Having been a small and quite isolated language for centuries, Siwu was relatively late to attract attention from outsiders. Europeans…
Akpafu is a term used by the Ewe of Ghana to refer to the Mawu people, their language (Siwu), and…
Siwu is a minority language spoken in the mountainous central part of the Volta Region, Ghana. The language and the…