[Lingtyp] List of ideophones in any language

Tue Jan 12 10:35:29 UTC 2021

OK.
How about a dictionary such as

    Alpher, Barry. 1991. /Yir-Yoront Lexicon: Sketch and Dictionary of
    an Australian Language/ (Trends in Linguistics, Documentation 6)
    Mouton de Gruyter.

which has all the recorded ideophones in the language, but only just 
over a hundred in number.

It strikes me that the analogy with a Swadesh List is weak, in that 
lists of that ilk are of senses all of which are expected to be 
lexicalised in every language (or, almost all, in languages of a large 
region); an expectation which has been borne out.

David
http://www.anu.edu.au/linguistics/nash/

On 12/1/21 21:03, JOO, Ian [Student] wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Thank you for your helpful comments.
> There seems to have been a slight misunderstanding that I would like 
> to apologize for having caused: When I mentioned "a sizeable list of 
> ideophones" I did not intend to mean theoretical works on ideophones 
> that include a number of sample ideophones from a language. Such works 
> are indeed numerous and not hard to find.
> What I meant was a wordlist, or even a dictionary of ideophones that 
> have hundreds or even thousands of ideophone entries, since our goal 
> is to make something like a Leipzig-Jakarta List/Swadesh List of 
> ideophones from many different languages.
> Again, I apologize for not having been clear in my initial message. I 
> would appreciate your understanding.
>
> Regards,
> Ian
> On 12 Jan 2021, 5:54 PM +0800, Karolina Grzech 
> <karolina.grzech at ling.su.se>, wrote:
>>
>> Dear Ian,
>>
>> There is substantial research by Janis Nuckolls on ideophones in 
>> Pastaza Quichua, spoken in Ecuador, e.g. her 1996 book “Sounds like 
>> life: sound-symbolic grammar, performance and cognition in Pastaza 
>> Quichua”
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Karolina
>>
>> *From:* Lingtyp [mailto:lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org] 
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>> *To:* paolo Ramat <paolo.ramat at unipv.it>
>> *Cc:* LINGTYP <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Lingtyp] List of ideophones in any language
>>
>> Dear Ian,
>>
>> You may check in :
>>
>> /The Aesthetics of Grammar/ , (2013) Williams, J. (ed), Cambridge, 
>> Cambridge University Press
>>
>> All the Best,
>>
>> Alice
>>
>>     Le 12 janv. 2021 à 10:16, paolo Ramat <paolo.ramat at unipv.it
>>     <mailto:paolo.ramat at unipv.it>> a écrit :
>>
>>     Just have a look at the Bibliography of  Prof. Alberto Mioni,
>>     University of Padua.
>>
>>     Best wishes
>>
>>     prof. dr. Paolo Ramat
>>
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>>     Il giorno mar 12 gen 2021 alle ore 08:57 Geoffrey Khan
>>     <gk101 at cam.ac.uk <mailto:gk101 at cam.ac.uk>> ha scritto:
>>
>>         Dear Ian,
>>
>>         I recently published a paper on ideophones and sound
>>         symbolism in Neo-Aramaic:
>>
>>         Khan, Geoffrey. ‘Sound Symbolism in Neo-Aramaic’. In /Near
>>         Eastern and Arabian Essays: Studies in Honour of John F.
>>         Healey/, edited by George J Brooke, Adrian H. W. Curtis,
>>         Muntasir al-Hamad, and G. Rex Smith, 197–214. Journal of
>>         Semitic Studies Supplement 41. Oxford: Oxford University
>>         Press, 2018.
>>
>>         I'm attaching a copy.
>>
>>         best wishes
>>
>>         Geoffrey
>>
>>         On 12/01/2021 07:01, JOO, Ian [Student] wrote:
>>
>>             Dear all,
>>
>>             My colleagues and I are working on a cross-linguistic
>>             database of basic ideophones and compiling a bibliography
>>             of works that contain a sizeable list of ideophones (aka
>>             mimetics, expressives, sound-symbolic words) in any
>>             language. Please find attached the bibliography. There
>>             are surprisingly little.
>>             If you are aware of any work that includes a sizeable
>>             list of ideophones in any language, then we would greatly
>>             appreciate it if you could let us know. A general
>>             dictionary that includes many ideophones is good too but
>>             ideally it should have ideophones as a separate list or
>>             at least separately labelled and digitally searchable.
>>
>>
>>             From Hong Kong,
>>
>>             Ian
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