Ideophones and the nature of the adjective word class in Ewe

Ameka, Felix K.

doi:10.1075/tsl.44.04ame

In:Ideophones
Edited by F.K. Erhard Voeltz and Christa Kilian-Hatz
[Typological Studies in Language 44] 2001
► pp. 25–48

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Ideophones and the nature of the adjective word class in Ewe

Felix K. Ameka | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Published online: 19 December 2001

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.44.04ame

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