[Lingtyp] List of ideophones in any language

[Guillaume Segerer]

Dear all

The RefLex database (https://reflex.cnrs.fr) has 15,500 + so-called 
ideophones (not always labelled as such in the original sources) from 
more than 150 African languages. I don't know if other databases allow 
to search on part-of-speech, but it might be worth checking. The Gbaya 
dictionary by Blanchard & Noss (1982) has 2257 ideophones, a few others 
have more than 500.

Guillaume

Le 12/01/2021 à 21:19, Dingemanse, Mark a écrit :
>
> 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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