A willy-nilly look at Lai ideophones
This is an investigation into an unusual type of lexeme in Lai Chin, the ideophone. Similar items in other languages have gone by other names elsewhere: "expressives" in Semai (Diffloth 1976, 1979), as well as "phonaesthetic words" (Henderson 1965), "impressifs" (Durand...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Other Authors: | |
Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
2024
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178154 |