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; 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588110192
• ISBN13: 9781588110190
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 436 Pages