The ideophone as a linguistic rebel: Speaking the act

Kunene, Daniel P.

doi:10.1075/tsl.44.15kun

In:Ideophones
Edited by F.K. Erhard Voeltz and Christa Kilian-Hatz
[Typological Studies in Language 44] 2001
► pp. 183–191

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Speaking the act

The ideophone as a linguistic rebel

Daniel P. Kunene | University of Wisconsin

Published online: 19 December 2001

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.44.15kun

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