Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages
Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages

Author: Lívia Körtvélyessy

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2024-04-01

Total Pages: 1351

ISBN-13: 3111053377

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This is the very first publication mapping onomatopoeia in the languages of the world. The publication provides a comprehensive, multi-level description of onomatopoeia in the world’s languages. The sample covers six macro-areas defined in the WALS: Euroasia, Africa, South America, North America, Australia, Papunesia. Each language-descriptive chapter specifies phonological, morphological, word-formation, semantic, and syntactic properties of onomatopoeia in the particular language. Furthermore, it provides information about the approach to onomatopoeia in individual linguistic traditions, the sources of data on onomatopoeia, the place and the function of onomatopoeia in the system of each language.

Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages
Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages

Author: Lívia Körtvélyessy

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2024-04-01

Total Pages: 1152

ISBN-13: 3111053229

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This is the very first publication mapping onomatopoeia in the languages of the world. The publication provides a comprehensive, multi-level description of onomatopoeia in the world’s languages. The sample covers six macro-areas defined in the WALS: Euroasia, Africa, South America, North America, Australia, Papunesia. Each language-descriptive chapter specifies phonological, morphological, word-formation, semantic, and syntactic properties of onomatopoeia in the particular language. Furthermore, it provides information about the approach to onomatopoeia in individual linguistic traditions, the sources of data on onomatopoeia, the place and the function of onomatopoeia in the system of each language.

Onomatopoeia in the World's Languages
Onomatopoeia in the World's Languages

Author: Lívia Körtvélyessy

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton

Published: 2024-04-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783111051550

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This is the very first publication mapping onomatopoeia in the languages of the world. The publication provides a comprehensive, multi-level description of onomatopoeia in the world's languages. The sample covers six macro-areas defined in the WALS: Euroasia, Africa, South America, North America, Australia, Papunesia. Each language-descriptive chapter specifies phonological, morphological, word-formation, semantic, and syntactic properties of onomatopoeia in the particular language. Furthermore, it provides information about the approach to onomatopoeia in individual linguistic traditions, the sources of data on onomatopoeia, the place and the function of onomatopoeia in the system of each language.

The Geography of Words
The Geography of Words

Author: Danko Sipka

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-12-16

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1108841651

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An engaging celebration of global linguistic diversity, with plenty of fascinating cases of cross-linguistic variation in each chapter.

Poetry and Language
Poetry and Language

Author: Michael Ferber

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-09-05

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1108429122

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An accessible introduction to poetry's unusual uses of language that tackles a wide range of poetic features from a linguistic point of view. Equally appealing to the non-expert and more experienced student of linguistics, this book delivers an engaging and often witty summary of how we define what poetry is.

A Grammar of Iconism
A Grammar of Iconism

Author: Earl R. Anderson

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780838637647

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Literary criticism often includes ad hoc comments about onomatopoeia, synaesthesia, or other forms of iconism. In A Grammar of Iconism, Earl Anderson discusses these phenomena systematically. According to Anderson, modern post-Saussurian linguistics has as its central tenet the arbitrariness of linguistic signs. Thus, linguistic elements that bear some relationship to their referent have been seen as marginal to the system of language, or at best similar in their arbitrariness to other linguistic signs. As an example of the latter, while most languages have an onomatopoeic element, different languages imitate sounds differently. Anderson argues against the standard view, provides a detailed critique of the negative arguments against iconism, and offers a positive typology that demonstrates the extensiveness and complexity of iconism in language.