IDEOPHONES IN BENGALI

• Authors: Rácová Anna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper defines ideophones as onomatopoeic words that evoke the idea of a perception mediated by different senses, the idea of a mental or physical sensation, or the idea of a state or a manner of action. The paper aims to call attention to the phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic properties of Bengali ideophones which make them a distinct word-class in Bengali.

Keywords

EN

BENGALI LANGUAGE; IDEOPHONES; MORPHOLOGY; PHONOLOGY; SEMANTIC PROPERTIES

• Publisher: Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Asian and African Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1 – 36

Contributors

author

Rácová Anna

• Ústav orientalistiky SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic