Essays about: "Ideophones Reduplication Iconicity"

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  1. 1. A Study in Flim-Flam: Reduplicative Ablaut Ideophones in English

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Ted Jansson Wallace; [2019]
    Keywords : Ideophones Reduplication Iconicity; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : In this study I analysed reduplicative ablaut ideophones in English for their morphosyntactical properties, as ideophones in other languages have been found to have several marked characteristics in this respect. Informed by the typology of ideophones in other languages, my research questions were whether the reduplicatives would appear integrated into or outside of sentences, if they would fill functions associated with traditional word classes, whether they would inflect and derive like other words, and if they would be limited to declarative type sentences and resist negation. READ MORE