Maria Flaksman
List of John Benjamins publications in which Maria Flaksman is involved.
2025 Chapter 9. Iconic words as a peripheral (lexical) group: A diachronic approach The Diachrony of Word Class Peripheries, Ackermann, Tanja and Christian Zimmer (eds.), pp. 206–249 | Chapter
This chapter is a discussion on a marginal (lexical) group of words — iconic words. “Iconic words” (also “imitative words”) is a term which unites a wide array of lexemes on the periphery of the language system — interjections, onomatopoeic words, ideophones, nursery words, phonaesthemic words,… read more
2022 Echoes of the past: Old English onomatopoeia Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems, Lenninger, Sara, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg and Elżbieta Tabakowska (eds.), pp. 331–350 | Chapter
Old English texts preserve a number of imitative words which give an intriguing insight into the sphere of sound-denotation of this ancient language. The study of Anglo-Saxon texts, however, reveals that many onomatopoeic words used there are non-existent in the Present-Day English. In this… read more
2020 Pathways of de-iconization: How borrowing, semantic evolution, and regular sound changes obscure iconicity Operationalizing Iconicity, Perniss, Pamela, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 75–104 | Chapter
The present chapter addresses various issues of de-iconization of iconic (mainly onomatopoeic) words, in particular, in the course of their regular phonetic and semantic development. These processes are described with an emphasis on word’s etymology, examples being drawn from modern and ancient… read more
2017 Iconic treadmill hypothesis: The reasons behind continuous onomatopoeic coinage Dimensions of Iconicity, Zirker, Angelika, Matthias Bauer, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 15–38 | Chapter
The paper deals with the process of iconicity loss and touches upon the enigma of iconic words’ continuous and persistent appearance in languages all over the globe. The hypothesis introduced aims at explaining the reasons behind the never-ceasing iconic coinage. The paper also presents a universal… read more