Chapter 6. Towards a semantic typological classification of motion ideophones
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Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano
Abstract
Motion ideophones are ubiquitous across languages. They expressively enact the way a motion event takes place. The main goal of this chapter is to offer a working proposal to classify motion ideophones from a semantic typological perspective. After a description of motion ideophones, the semantic grid for motion ideophones is presented. This consists of 7 first-level components plus 26 second-level and 121 third-level sub-components. The second part comprises two studies: a first-level analysis of 453 Basque motion ideophones and a fine-grained subcomponent analysis on a selection of 186 motion ideophones from 16 genetically and geographically different languages. The last section discusses the usefulness and applicability of this type of semantic typological classifications.
Abstract
Motion ideophones are ubiquitous across languages. They expressively enact the way a motion event takes place. The main goal of this chapter is to offer a working proposal to classify motion ideophones from a semantic typological perspective. After a description of motion ideophones, the semantic grid for motion ideophones is presented. This consists of 7 first-level components plus 26 second-level and 121 third-level sub-components. The second part comprises two studies: a first-level analysis of 453 Basque motion ideophones and a fine-grained subcomponent analysis on a selection of 186 motion ideophones from 16 genetically and geographically different languages. The last section discusses the usefulness and applicability of this type of semantic typological classifications.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Editors and contributors vii
- Abbreviations and symbols ix
- Introduction: Ideophones, mimetics, and expressives 1
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Part I. Phonology and morphology
- Chapter 1. ‘Ideophone’ as a comparative concept 13
- Chapter 2. The phonological structure of Japanese mimetics and motherese 35
- Chapter 3. Monosyllabic and disyllabic roots in the diachronic development of Japanese mimetics 57
- Chapter 4. Cross-linguistic variation in phonaesthemic canonicity, with special reference to Korean and English 77
- Chapter 5. Classification of nominal compounds containing mimetics 101
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Part II. Semantics and pragmatics
- Chapter 6. Towards a semantic typological classification of motion ideophones 137
- Chapter 7. The sensori-semantic clustering of ideophonic meaning in Pastaza Quichua 167
- Chapter 8. The power of ‘not saying who’ in Czech onomatopoeia 199
- Chapter 9. Mimetics, gaze, and facial expression in a multimodal corpus of Japanese 229
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Part III. Language acquisition and multilingualism
- Chapter 10. The structure of mimetic verbs in child and adult Japanese 251
- Chapter 11. Iconicity in L2 Japanese speakers’ multi-modal language use 265
- Chapter 12. Ideophones as a measure of multilingualism* 303
- Subject index 323
- Language index 325
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Editors and contributors vii
- Abbreviations and symbols ix
- Introduction: Ideophones, mimetics, and expressives 1
-
Part I. Phonology and morphology
- Chapter 1. ‘Ideophone’ as a comparative concept 13
- Chapter 2. The phonological structure of Japanese mimetics and motherese 35
- Chapter 3. Monosyllabic and disyllabic roots in the diachronic development of Japanese mimetics 57
- Chapter 4. Cross-linguistic variation in phonaesthemic canonicity, with special reference to Korean and English 77
- Chapter 5. Classification of nominal compounds containing mimetics 101
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Part II. Semantics and pragmatics
- Chapter 6. Towards a semantic typological classification of motion ideophones 137
- Chapter 7. The sensori-semantic clustering of ideophonic meaning in Pastaza Quichua 167
- Chapter 8. The power of ‘not saying who’ in Czech onomatopoeia 199
- Chapter 9. Mimetics, gaze, and facial expression in a multimodal corpus of Japanese 229
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Part III. Language acquisition and multilingualism
- Chapter 10. The structure of mimetic verbs in child and adult Japanese 251
- Chapter 11. Iconicity in L2 Japanese speakers’ multi-modal language use 265
- Chapter 12. Ideophones as a measure of multilingualism* 303
- Subject index 323
- Language index 325