Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: . This article deals with the study of ideophones in Guñaamolo, an Atlantic language spoken in the south (Casamance) of Senegal. Ideophones are recognised as particular words that are organised in a way that is relatively marginal in relation to the regular system of the language. Doke, in his Bantu Linguistic Terminology (1935: 118), defines them as follows: "A word, often onomatopeic, which describes a predicate, qualificative, or adverb in respect to manner, color, sound, action, state, or intensity". However, in Guñaamolo, ideophones have invariable forms and participate in the construction of a verbal syntagm; their occurrence is linked to the presence of a particular verb. In this study, we examine the specific phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic properties of the different ideophones
Author: Dr Lamine BODIAN
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4404723528