Comparative Concept: phenomime (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
phenomime (str)
| Typ | strategy (def) |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | phenomime |
| Assoziiert | |
| Spraakbanken | phenomime (str) |
Umbrella
Hierarchy
Definition
the ideophone strategy used to express a property of movement, visual appearance or light emission, texture, or taste. Example: Siwu wùrùfùù 'fluffy' is a phenomime; it describes the texture of an object using an ideophone. (Section 14.4)