Comparative Concept: phonomime (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
phonomime (str)
| Typ | strategy |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | phonomime |
| Assoziiert |
Partonomie
Taxonomie
Definition
the ideophone strategy used to express a property of sound emission. Example: Japanese potapota potapota 'dripping' is a phonomime; it describes the sound of dripping using an ideophone. (Section 14.4)