Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages

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Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages is written by Lívia Körtvélyessy and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3111053229 (ISBN 10) and 9783111053226 (ISBN 13).

This is the very first publication mapping onomatopoeia in the languages of the world. The publication provides a comprehensive, multi-level description of onomatopoeia in the world’s languages. The sample covers six macro-areas defined in the WALS: Euroasia, Africa, South America, North America, Australia, Papunesia. Each language-descriptive chapter specifies phonological, morphological, word-formation, semantic, and syntactic properties of onomatopoeia in the particular language. Furthermore, it provides information about the approach to onomatopoeia in individual linguistic traditions, the sources of data on onomatopoeia, the place and the function of onomatopoeia in the system of each language.