Iconicity and parts of speech: Changana´s ideophones
This paper intends to investigate the part of speech and function of ideophones in Changana, a Bantu language, spoken in South Africa, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. Ideophones are words that describe events/actions/scenes which present a noticeable aspect. The analysis is based on Radical Cons...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC) |
| Repositorio: | Signo (Santa Cruz do Sul. Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.online.unisc.br:article/11146 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://seer.unisc.br/index.php/signo/article/view/11146 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Ideophones Parts of Speech Radical Construction Grammar. Ideofones Classe de Palavras Gramática de Construções Radical |
| Resumo: | This paper intends to investigate the part of speech and function of ideophones in Changana, a Bantu language, spoken in South Africa, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. Ideophones are words that describe events/actions/scenes which present a noticeable aspect. The analysis is based on Radical Construction Grammar (CROFT, 2000; 2001). The hypothesis put forward in this paper is that ideophones constitute a particular part of speech of Changana, whose function is predicative, even if ideophones in Changana are not the prototypical predicates. The verbs are the prototypical predicates in Changana. Ideophones are marked predicates, both in the sense of functional markedness, and in the sense of typological markedness. |
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