[Lingtyp] List of ideophones in any language

Wed Jan 13 18:49:07 UTC 2021

Also the 3-volume Dictionary of Iconic Expressions in Japanese by Kakehi,
Tamori, and Schourup. I'm currently analyzing second syllable vowels in
bisyllabic mimetic forms using this work. Most of the mimetic headwords
have example sentences so one can glean context of use.

Jess Tauber

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 11:41 AM Johanna Mattissen <
Johanna.Mattissen at uni-koeln.de> wrote:

> Dear Ian,
>
> for Japanese, there is Chang, Andrew C. 1990: A Thesaurus of Japanese
> Mimesis and Onomatopoeia. Tokyo: Kodansha
>
> Best,
> Johanna
>
>
> Am 12.01.2021 um 11:03 schrieb JOO, Ian [Student]:
>
> 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> <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
>
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> *From:* Lingtyp [mailto:lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org
> <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org>] *On Behalf Of* VITTRANT Alice
> *Sent:* 12 January 2021 10:19
> *To:* paolo Ramat <paolo.ramat at unipv.it> <paolo.ramat at unipv.it>
> *Cc:* LINGTYP <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
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> *Subject:* Re: [Lingtyp] List of ideophones in any language
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> 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> a écrit :
>
>
>
> Just have a look at the Bibliography of  Prof. Alberto Mioni, University
> of Padua.
>
> Best wishes
>
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> Il giorno mar 12 gen 2021 alle ore 08:57 Geoffrey Khan <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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