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In:Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives
Edited by Kimi Akita and Prashant Pardeshi
[Iconicity in Language and Literature 16] 2019
► pp. 199–228

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Chapter 8
The power of ‘not saying who’ in Czech onomatopoeia

 | Brown University
Published online: 6 May 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ill.16.09fid
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1A short overview
    • 1.2Data
  • 2.OpEs in story-telling
  • 3.OpEs in oral interaction
  • 4.OpEs start migrating into the verbal system
  • 5.Genres OpEs inhabit
  • 6.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Sources
  • References
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