Ideophones in Arusa Maasai: Syntax, morphology, and phonetics

The present article is dedicated to the syntax, morphology, and phonetics of ideophones in Arusa Maasai. After examining the compliance of 69 ideophonic lexemes with the typologically driven prototype of an ideophone, the authors conclude that Arusa ideophones may range from canonical to non-canonic...

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Main Authors: Karani Michael, Andrason Alexander
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2022-11-01
Series:Open Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0220