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Author Nuckolls, Janis B.

Title Sounds like life : sound-symbolic grammar, performance, and cognition in Pastaza Quechua / Janis B. Nuckolls.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; 2
Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; 2.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-294) and index.
Contents Abbreviations and Symbols; I: Sound-Symbolic Grammar and Performance; 1 Introduction; 2 The Theoretical Dimensions of Aspect; 3 The Grammatical Ecology of Aspect in Pastaza Quechua; 4 The Performative Expression of Durativity and Perfectivity; 5 Sound-Symbolic Involvement; 6 Signs of Life in Sound; II: The Sound-Symbolic Construction of Spatiotemporal Experience; 7 Sound-Symbolic Iconicity and Grammar; 8 Sound-Symbolic Contrasts of Sensible Experience; 9 Sound Symbols of Contact and Penetration; 10 Sound Symbols of Opening and Closing; 11 Sound Symbols of Falling.
Summary Sound-symbolism occurs when words resemble the sounds associated with the phenomena they attempt to describe, rather than an arbitrary representation. For example the word raven is arbitrary in that it does not resemble a raven; cuckoo, however, is sound -symbolic in that it resembles the bird's call. In Sounds Like Life, Janis Nuckolls studies the occurrence of sound-symbolic words in Pastaza Quechua (a dialect of Quechua), which is spoken in eastern Ecuador. The use of sound-symbolic words is much more prevalent in Pastaza Quechua than in any other language, and they symbolize a wider range.
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Subject Quechua language -- Onomatopoeic words.
Quechua language.
Quechua language -- Aspect.
Quechua language -- Ecuador -- Pastaza (Province)
Ecuador -- Pastaza (Province)
Indexed Term Language
South America
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Nuckolls, Janis B. Sounds like life. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996 (DLC) 94048118
ISBN 1423736664 (electronic book)
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