<div dir="ltr">For the past several seasons I've been working on a crosslinguistic comparison on ideophone structure and phonoesemantics,that may relate to the notion of motion verbs. In Japanese, for example, Shoko Hamano, in her dissertation on ideophones in that language, discovered that in general, the first syllable in bisyllabic ideophones dealt with the material properties of the theme, and the second with its local spatiotemporal context. Monosyllabic ideophones could be of either type. In my own research I've examined ideophone from other Central Asian languages such as Nanai (Manchu-Tungus), Korean, and a number of Mongolic languages, and have found the same sort of functional split in longer ideophones. I've also found similar splits in ideophones from other areas- such as Santali (North Munda in India), and Zulu (Southern Bantu) among others. This has led me to hypothesize that this functional dichotomy is the primitive condition, 'recapitulated' in modern languages where there are large numbers of ideophones (nearly 1000 and up). After Johanna Nichols' book Language in Space and Time came out, with its end-tables showing various typological properties of different languages, I started wondering what properties, if any, might be the ones possessed by languages with large numbers of ideophones. I found that lowered levels of synthesis and fusion tended to associate with such large inventories of ideophones, with the two features working relatively independently. The more of either, the fewer ideophones a language tended to have, other factors (such as sociolinguistic ones) being equal.<div><br></div><div>Jess Tauber</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 5:03 AM Antonio Morata <<a href="mailto:morata@cc.au.dk">morata@cc.au.dk</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"><div class="msg285060451196221433">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear Sergey<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Holistic Spatial Semantics by Jordan Zlatev and colleagues – a “post-Talmian” terrain of approaches.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03740463.2020.1865692" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03740463.2020.1865692</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hope you find it useful.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Antonio<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Sergey Loesov<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 21, 2022 10:57 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG" target="_blank">LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Lingtyp] motion verbs<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:105%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear all,</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:105%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Are you aware of a new generation of reference works on motion verbs, younger than the path-breaking
studies of Leonard Talmy?</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:105%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Best
wishes,</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sergey</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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