On the Syntactic Status of Edo Ideophones

Ideophones are a particular lexical class of expressive words depicting perceptual events or states, and are said to be a universal or near-universal feature of language (Dingemanse, 2012:655; Kilian-Hatz, 2001:163). This paper presents an overview of Ẹdo ideophones to characterize them in terms of...

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Main Author: Edosa James Edionhon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Learned Press 2020-12-01
Series:Macrolinguistics
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Online Access:http://www.macrolinguistics.com/index.php?c=msg&id=877&