[Lingtyp] List of ideophones in any language

[Jess Tauber]

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.

Jess Tauber

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 3:19 PM Dingemanse, Mark <Mark.Dingemanse at mpi.nl>
wrote:

> Interesting question. I don't have the impression that lists of ideophones
> are rarer than, say, list of verbs or nouns — 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. 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.
>
>
> I take it you're looking for things like this (all of these include at
> least 50 ideophones/expressives/mimetics):
>
>
> * Blench, Roger. 2013. Mwaghavul Expressives. In Tourneux, Henry (ed.),
> Chadic Linguistics 8, 53–75. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
> * Dhoorre, Cabdulqaadir Salaad & Tosco, Mauro. 1998. 111 Somali
> Ideophones. Journal of African Cultural Studies 11(2). 125–156.
>
> * Gerner, Matthias. 2005. Expressives in Kam (Dong): A Study in Sign
> Typology (Part II). Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 34(1). 25–67.
> * Kruspe, Nicole. 2004. *A grammar of Semelai*. Cambridge: Cambridge
> University Press.
> * Mouélé, Médard. 1993. Les ideophones en Wanzi: étude préliminaire.
> Pholia 8. 181–206.
> * Nakagawa, Hirosi. 2013. G|ui ideophones: work in progress. Asian and
> African Languages and Linguistics 8. 99–121.
>
> I'll get in touch off-list to share PDFs and some more thoughts.
>
> Very best,
>
>
> Mark
>
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> Mark Dingemanse, PhD
> Associate Professor, Language & Communication
> Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University
> https://markdingemanse.net
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