expressives

[Stephen Matthews]

Count me in for Cantonese. Here's a question for starters:
- In SEAling there is a descriptive tradition regarding 'expressives'
and/or 'elaborate expressions'
- In African linguistics there is a tradition regarding 'ideophones'.
What is the relationship between these two sets of phenomena?
Stephen

Stephen Matthews
Department of Linguistics
University of Hong Kong
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