Good evening, afternoon, or morning to you, people of r/conlangs. Today's Saturday, and that means it's time for another typological paper! Once again, there will be some prompts for you to discuss in the comments.
Ideophones in Japhug (Rgyalrong) (Jacques)
This week's paper was submitted by u/wmblathers, and while it is not really a typological paper, it is very interesting nonetheless. There has been a TyPoW on ideophones before, but that was almost a year ago, so I thought it might be appropriate to reuse that topic. Ideophones are pretty damn cool, and inflecting ideophones are even cooler. This paper presents how Japhug (Rgyalrong, Sino-Tibetan) handles its ideophones, and today you can talk about how your conlang handles them! Now onto the prompts:
- Does your language feature ideophones?
- Are there any phonological restrictions on ideophones? Sounds or sound clusters that only appear in these words?
- How do your ideophones behave morphologically? Is there any ideophone inflection, like in Japhug?
- How are ideophones used syntactically? Where do they appear?
- How do ideophones act in discourse?
- Is there any notable derivational morphology for ideophones? E.g. deideophonic verbs, as in Japhug?
- Does your language have any other interesting sound symbolism or onomatopoeia?
Remember to try to comment on other people's languages
Submit your papers here!
So, that's about it for this week's edition. See you next Saturday, and happy conlanging!