2017/12/31 by Aimée Lahaussois · 1 voice · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Language and cultural evolution #Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation #Categorization, perception, and language
paper · doi:10.1075/ltba.17005.lah
openalex publication_date 2017/12/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
Abstract In Khaling Rai, a number of lexemes have been found which can be considered ideophones, according to Dingemanse’s ( 2012 : 654) definition of the latter as “marked words depictive of sensory imagery.” This article will describe the different types of ideophones found in Khaling. These ideophones not only manifest a range of different morphological patterns, they cover the entire spectrum of sensory modalities found in Dingemanse’s implicational hierarchy ( 2012 : 663), namely sound, movement, visual patterns, other sensory perceptions (such as texture and taste) and cognitive states. The more than 400 ideophones collected to date in Khaling present a sound symbolic landscape which appears to be considerably richer than that found in other Kiranti languages with which the author is familiar.