Ideophones are marked words that depict sensory imagery found in many of the world's
languages. They are noted for their special forms, distinct grammatical behaviour, rich …

This project could not have been pulled off without the generous help of many. In the first
place I want to thank the Mawu people, who taught me their language and culture and made …

English Lexicogenesis investigates the processes by which novel words are coined in
English, and how they are variously discarded or adopted, and frequently then adapted …

Whether in Africa or Southeast Asia, we can safely say that ideophones are words which
share special phonological, morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics that …

The assumption that the connection between a symbol and its meaning is arbitrary has been
the foundation of modern linguistics, symbolic artificial intelligence, and most theories of …

This dissertation examines systematic sound-meaning correspondences in sound-symbolic
words from a cross-linguistic perspective, investigating whether and to what degree they are …

Ideophones, a form of expressive language, are an integral aspect of storytelling in many
African societies. Foregrounded through distinctive syntactic patterns and prosodic features …

Burmese as part of the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area shares many linguistic
features with other related and unrelated-related languages of the area. Since Henderson …

Please cite as: Tufvesson, S. (2007). Expressives. In A. Majid (Ed.), Field Manual Volume 10
(pp. 53-58). Nijmegen: Max Planck I Page 1 Please cite as: Tufvesson, S. (2007) …

146 NJ ENFIELD observed (Enfield 1999); this, however, is unlikely to affect generalisations
made here. Lao is a tone language (see Abbreviations and Conventions for phonology …