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Onomatopoeic Infinitives and Nouns in EkeGusii:Evidence for imagic and relative iconicity

宏观语言学 2020年第1期8卷 36-54页

作者： elijah omwansa mariera Kisii University Kenya

Whether meaning is arbitrary or motivated remains a matter of unsettled linguistic *** main purpose of this discussion is to bring to linguistic attention the level of motivation in EkeGusii,a Bantu language of the Niger-Congo family spoken in Kenya,using onomatopoeic infinitives and nouns,and to attest that meaning is considerably *** does not look convenient to classify onomatopes under *** iconicity plays a central role in the two word classes,though imagic and relative iconicity intersect in cacophonous,reduplicative,and inherently onomatopoeic *** EkeGusii,onomatopes are either explicit or *** becomes clear that onomatopoeia acquires a metaphorical function in certain idiomatic expressions in EkeGusii.

关键词： explicit and implicit onomatopoeia parrot role reflexive onomatopes cacophony

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EkeGusii Morphopragmatics and the Junction with Iconicity

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宏观语言学 2021年第2期9卷 44-67页

作者： elijah omwansa mariera Kisii University Kenya

The intersection between morphology and pragmatics in EkeGusii,a Bantu language spoken in Kenya among the natives of Kisii and Nyamira Counties,is the concern of this *** the lean evidence of previous research on EkeGusii morphopragmatics,the argument is presented in four *** first examines the interplay between affixation and pragmatics,especially contextually sanctioned diminution and *** happens in the revelation of attitude at the lexical,and post-lexical levels,where in the latter,vowel lengthening is an alternative way of modifying degrees of augmentation and *** and augmentation also relate to style as manner with language,social relations,persuasion and euphemism in clitic-like groups,and augmentative prefixation where the function of the amplifier prefix is *** second part posits that metaphorical compounds acquire idiosyncratic meanings supported by *** third part presents the meanings of iconic reduplicatives as isomorphic,and dependent on *** final part delves into the portmanteau morph,a knotty problem as evidenced in EkeGusii,arguing that it can only be described as serving pragmatic functions with greater reliance on syntax and semantics,which in turn abet covert morphological *** portmanteau morph,from a morphopragmatic viewpoint,is more of a question to ponder than a conclusion.

关键词： clitic-like groups amplifier prefix metaphorical compounding portmanteau morph

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Diagrammatic Iconicity in EkeGusii: A relation between the structure of form and meaning

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宏观语言学 2021年第1期9卷 84-100页

作者： elijah omwansa mariera Evans Gesura Mecha George Morara Anyona Kisii University Kenya

This paper mainly presents evidence for a relationship between language structure and meaning in EkeGusii,a Bantu language spoken in *** main argument is that the structure of language mirrors the structure of reality.A brief overview of other scholars demonstrates that diagrammatic iconicity shows universal *** main ideas run down the ***,in EkeGusii,speakers sub-consciously cluster sounds around related meanings,evidencing gestalt and relative ***,there is evidence of overlap of morphological and phonetic iconicity,an aspect of ***,reduplication in certain infinitives demonstrates the reality of phono-iconicity in EkeGusii,augmented by unpleasant sound ***,certain onomatopes in EkeGusii are actually diagrammatic,indicating that there is no one stop criterion for classifying overlapping types of *** finally,the paper posits that iconicity intersects with arbitrariness showing that language has both motivated and discrete symbols.

关键词： elisive reduplication phonaesthesia echoic transparency diagram gestalt and relative iconicity

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