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The Meaning and Use of Ideophones in Siwu PDF hosted at the Radboud Repository of the Radboud University Nijmegen The following full text is a publisher's version. For additional information about this publication click this link. http://hdl.handle.net/2066/91241 Please be advised that this information was generated on 2021-10-08 and may be subject to change. The Meaning and Use of Ideophones in Siwu Mark Dingemanse The Meaning and Use of Ideophones in Siwu Copyright © Mark Dingemanse, 2011 Cover photo: Making palm oil in Akpafu-Mempeasem, Ghana, March 2008 The Meaning and Use of Ideophones in Siwu Een wetenschappelijke proeve op het gebied van Letteren Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen op gezag van de rector magnificus prof. mr. S.C.J.J. Kortmann volgens besluit van college van decanen in het openbaar te verdedigen op maandag 24 oktober 2011 om 15.30 precies door Mark Dingemanse geboren op 5 mei 1983 te Middelburg Promotoren Prof. Dr. Stephen C. Levinson Prof. Dr. Gunter Senft (Universität zu Köln) Copromotor Dr. Felix K. Ameka (Universiteit Leiden) Manuscriptcommissie Prof. Dr. Pieter Muysken Prof. Dr. Tom Güldemann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Dr. Sotaro Kita (University of Birmingham) This thesis comes with a website containing online supplementary materials: http://thesis.ideophone.org/. Materials available online are marked (S). The research reported in this thesis was supported by a grant from the Max- Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften, München, Germany. Outline Acknowledgements.................................................................................................................i 1 Introduction...................................................................................................................1 I Ideophones......................................................................................................................... 19 2 Defining ideophones...................................................................................................21 3 A research history of ideophones.............................................................................. 57 II Siwu......................................................................................................................................75 4 The Mawu, Kawu and Siwu.......................................................................................77 5 Grammatical preliminaries........................................................................................95 6 Ideophones in Siwu..................................................................................................133 III M eaning............................................................................................................................161 7 Iconicity, performance and depiction in ideophones............................................163 8 Eliciting ideophones: the Language of Perception tasks.......................................189 9 Determining the meaning of ideophones: folk definitions................................... 207 10 Conceptual structuring in ideophones: a sorting task...........................................231 IV Use......................................................................................................................................249 11 How to do things with ideophones: a social interactional approach.................. 251 12 Ideophones in unexpected places: greetings and funeral dirges...........................301 13 Ideophone creation in a corpus of everyday speech.............................................327 14 Ideophones and gesture in everyday speech.........................................................343 V Conclusions......................................................................................................................355 15 Conclusions................................................................................................................357 16 References..................................................................................................................367 17 Appendices.................................................................................................................401 Samenvatting........................................................................................................................... 411 Detailed table of contents Acknowledgements......................................................................................................................i 1 Introduction......................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Introduction...................................................................................................................1 1.2 Aims and scope............................................................................................................. 2 1.3 Fieldwork and data.......................................................................................................4 1.4 Conventions and data sources....................................................................................16 1 Ideophones......................................................................................................................... 19 2 Defining ideophones........................................................................................................ 21 2.1 Origin of the term.......................................................................................................21 2.2 Towards a cross-linguistic definition of ideophones............................................... 23 2.3 A definition: Marked words that depict sensory imagery.......................................25 2.4 Comparison with other definitions........................................................................... 29 2.5 The fundamentally depictive nature of ideophones............................................... 34 2.6 Depiction and convention..........................................................................................41 2.7 Ideophony and depiction in the broader context.....................................................46 2.8 Conclusions..................................................................................................................54 3 A research history of ideophones.................................................................................. 57 3.1 Introduction.................................................................................................................57 3.2 Early sources................................................................................................................58 3.3 Junod and Westermann: recognition beyond African linguistics...........................62 3.4 Doke and beyond........................................................................................................66 3.5 The crosslinguistic encounter: Samarin and Diffloth.............................................. 69 3.6 Recent approaches......................................................................................................71 Contents II Siwu......................................................................................................................................75 4 The Mawu, Kawu and Siw u............................................................................................77 4.1 Ethnographic context..................................................................................................77 4.2 The Siwu language in context....................................................................................85 4.3 Earliest sources ........................................................................................................... 86 4.4 Previous work: Ethnography......................................................................................87 4.5 Previous work: Linguistics.........................................................................................92 5 Grammatical prelim inaries............................................................................................. 95 5.1 Introduction.................................................................................................................95 5.2 Phonology sketch........................................................................................................ 95 5.3 Basic grammatical structures...................................................................................104 5.4 Selected semantic-functional domains....................................................................118 5.5 Property denoting expressions................................................................................ 118 5.6 Constructions of perception in Siwu.......................................................................121 5.7 Reported discourse....................................................................................................126 6 Ideophones in Siwu........................................................................................................ 133 6.1 Introduction............................................................................................................. 133 6.2 Phonology: word length and phonotactics............................................................ 134 6.3 Ideophonic word forms............................................................................................ 137 6.4 Expressive
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