Sounds like life : sound-symbolic grammar, performance, and cognition in Pastaza Quechua
Janis B. Nuckolls (Author)
Sound-symbolism occurs when words resemble the sounds associated with the phenomena they attempt to describe, rather than an arbitrary representation. For example the word raven is arbitrary in that it does not resemble a raven; cuckoo, however, is sound -symbolic in that it resembles the bird's call. In Sounds Like Life, Janis Nuckolls studies the occurrence of sound-symbolic words in Pastaza Quechua (a dialect of Quechua), which is spoken in eastern Ecuador. The use of sound-symbolic words is much more prevalent in Pastaza Quechua than in any other language, and they symbolize a wider range
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Abbreviations and Symbols; I: Sound-Symbolic Grammar and Performance; 1 Introduction; 2 The Theoretical Dimensions of Aspect; 3 The Grammatical Ecology of Aspect in Pastaza Quechua; 4 The Performative Expression of Durativity and Perfectivity; 5 Sound-Symbolic Involvement; 6 Signs of Life in Sound; II: The Sound-Symbolic Construction of Spatiotemporal Experience; 7 Sound-Symbolic Iconicity and Grammar; 8 Sound-Symbolic Contrasts of Sensible Experience; 9 Sound Symbols of Contact and Penetration; 10 Sound Symbols of Opening and Closing; 11 Sound Symbols of Falling 12 Sound Symbols of Deformation13 Sound Symbols of Suddenness and Completiveness; 14 Conclusion; Appendix: Conjugation of rina; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
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