PT Unknown
AU Reiter, S
TI Ideophones in Awetí
PY 2013
PU Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
WP https://macau.uni-kiel.de/receive/diss_mods_00012511
LA en
DE Ideophone; Amazonien; Tupi; Gestik; ideophones; Amazonia; gesture
AB The dissertation describes the phenomenon of ideophones in Awetí, a Tupian language spoken in the Amazonian lowlands in Central Brazil. Ideophones are marked words in Awetí discourse which are performed rather than simply spoken and which depict salient features of activities. The dissertation also includes a concise grammar of the Awetí language.
PI Kiel
ER