Ideophones and compound verbs in Wolaitta

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Ideophones in interaction with intonation and the expression of new information in some indigenous languages of Australia 9
6. Ideophones and the nature of the adjective word class in Ewe 25
7. Ideophones and compound verbs in Wolaitta 49
8. Research on ideophones, whither hence? 63
9. Setswana ideophones as uninflected predicative lexemes 75
10. Phonosemantic correspondences in Emai attributive ideophones 87
11. Defining ideophones in Mundang 97
12. Some expressive and borrowed elements in the lexicon of Finnish dialects 111
13. The ideophone in Didinga 121
14. Ideophones in Ciluba 139
15. Universality and diversity 155
16. Expressives and iconicity in the lexicon 165
17. Speaking the act 183
18. Phonosemantic hierarchies 193
19. Ideophones as the source of verbs in Northern Australian languages 205
20. Ideophones in the Balto-Finnic languages 223
21. The ideophone in Zulu 235
22. Are ideophones really as weird and extra-systematic as linguists make them out to be? 251
23. Ideas, phones and Gbaya verbal art 259
24. Ideophones in Pastaza Quechua 271
25. Le statut des idéophones en gbaya 287
26. Iconic morphology and word formation in Ilocano 303
27. Testing hypotheses about African ideophones 321
28. Ideophonic adverbs and manner gaps in Emai 339
29. Ideophone-like characteristics of uninflected predicates in Jaminjung (Australia) 355
30. La formation des radicaux déidéophoniques et des idéophones déverbatifs en tɛtɛla (dialecte ewango) 375
31. A comparison of some Southeast Asian ideophones with some African ideophones 385
32. Bibliography of ideophone research 407