Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 15:10:11 -0500 (EST) with NJE id 1100 for CONLANG@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 14:29:18 -0500 OAA12037 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 14:29:33 -0500 (EST) SMTP id OAA10930 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 14:29:26 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: cjc26@travelers.mail.cornell.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 14:29:26 -0500 Reply-To: Constructed Languages List Sender: Constructed Languages List From: Cliff Crawford Subject: Re: Ideophones in conlangs? To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG In-Reply-To: <34862E43.5FC3@iii.org.tw> X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 865 X-From-Space-Date: Thu Dec 4 15:11:28 1997 X-From-Space-Address: owner-conlang@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Douglas Koller wrote: > > They are a kind of interjection, sometimes clearly related > > to a noun/adjective/verb root, sometimes not. We can > > say in English, He fell down, plop! They can express > > this kind of thing for all the other things I mentioned. > > African languages are famous for having lots of them for sounds, > >colors, tastes, textures, and just about anything else you can think >of. > > Chinese has a very healthy dose of these: > [snip] > You'd have a hard time convincing me that these were not somehow linked > to onomatopoeia. Hmmm...after reading this post and the others on ideophones, I realized that the interjections in Luganda that I posted before may not be the same thing. Can anyone clear this up for me? Thanks... Cliff Crawford --- cjc26@cornell.edu http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/cjc26/