<div dir="ltr">Some years ago the late William Samarin sent me a large sheaf of old computer printouts of ideophones from the dialect of Gbeya that he had done fieldwork on for many years. They included the ideophones as headwords of course plus glosses and/or semantic features he'd gleaned from them. So far as I know this is the only survival of his archives at his university, as a fire destroyed the rest. Had I known I wouldn't have written notes on them. I still have them in storage.<div><br></div><div>Jess Tauber</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 3:19 PM Dingemanse, Mark <<a href="mailto:Mark.Dingemanse@mpi.nl">Mark.Dingemanse@mpi.nl</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Interesting question. I don't have the impression that lists of ideophones are rarer than, say, list of verbs or nouns — <span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px">in
fact it is slightly more common to have a paper about ideophones that includes a list of items than to have the same for verbs or nouns. </span><span style="font-size:12pt">Which is to say, 1) beware assumptions of completeness: often such lists are presented
without any information about elicitation methods or representativeness; 2) dictionaries remain the best place to find them in great numbers.</span><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p>
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<p>I take it you're looking for things like this (all of these include at least 50 ideophones/expressives/mimetics):</p>
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<p>* <span style="font-size:12pt">Blench, Roger. 2013. Mwaghavul Expressives. In Tourneux, Henry (ed.), Chadic Linguistics 8, 53–75. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.</span></p>
<div><span style="font-size:12pt">* Dhoorre, Cabdulqaadir Salaad & Tosco, Mauro. 1998. 111 Somali Ideophones. Journal of African Cultural Studies 11(2). 125–156.</span><br>
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<div>* Gerner, Matthias. 2005. Expressives in Kam (Dong): A Study in Sign Typology (Part II). Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 34(1). 25–67.</div>
<div><span style="font-size:12pt">* Kruspe, Nicole. 2004. </span>
<i style="font-size:12pt">A grammar of Semelai</i><span style="font-size:12pt">. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</span><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></div>
<div>* Mouélé, Médard. 1993. Les ideophones en Wanzi: étude préliminaire. Pholia 8. 181–206.</div>
<div><span style="font-size:12pt">* Nakagawa, Hirosi. 2013. G|ui ideophones: work in progress. Asian and African Languages and Linguistics 8. 99–121.</span><br>
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<div>I'll get in touch off-list to share PDFs and some more thoughts.</div>
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<div>Mark Dingemanse, PhD</div>
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