The Ideophone
Published January 10, 2008 | Version v1 | https://doi.org/10.59350/67ajh-mr145

On the history of the term 'ideophone'

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The most common use of the term 'ideophone' today is as a term for a lexical or grammatical category of words. This use goes back to C.M. Doke, who introduced the term in this sense for the description of Bantu languages. However, Doke did not coin the term. Who did, and how was it used before Doke?

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2024-02-04T21:16:22Z
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References

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