Ideophones And The Evolution Of Language
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Ideophones and the Evolution of Language
Author: John Haiman
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2018-01-11
This book argues that ideophones provide the 'missing link' in our knowledge of how communication has evolved to become the spoken language of today.
The Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution
Author: Nathalie Gontier
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2024
The Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution explores the origins of our characteristically human abilities - our ability to speak, create images, play music, and read and write. The book investigates how symbolization evolved in human evolution and how symbolism is expressed across the various areas of human life.
Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives
Author: Kimi Akita
language: en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date: 2019-05-06
This volume explores new frontiers in the linguistic study of iconic lexemes known as ideophones, mimetics, and expressives. A large part of the literature on this long-neglected word class has been dedicated to the description of its sound symbolism, marked morphophonology, and grammatical status in individual languages. Drawing on data from Asian (especially Japanese), African, American, and European languages, the twelve chapters in this volume aim to establish common grounds for theoretical and crosslinguistic discussions of the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, acquisition, and variation of iconic lexemes. Not only researchers who are interested in linguistic iconicity but also theoretical linguists and typologists will benefit from the updated insights presented in each study.