This article positions types at the center of anthropological knowledge production,
considering them both from the abstract, analytical perspective of expert typologies and from …

Storytelling is a key component of the transmission of language and culture. In many
cultures around the world, storytelling contains not only material that is crucial to the integrity …

Pinning down the meaning of expressives, or ideophones, has troubled the study of this
word class from its outset. As an important part of the aesthetics of daily language use, they …

Mundari expressives are marked, distinct from other words through reduplication not
motivated by semantics or iconicity (Osada 2010; Phillips and Harrison, 2017). This …

The study of expressive language has helped illustrate how ideophonicity operates between
grammar and performance, as both syntax and poetics, across a wide range of phenomena …

Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area offers the first comprehensive account of this
important understudied word class from synchronic, diachronic, literary, and descriptive …

Alongside the iconicity of phonetic features of speech such as pitch contrasts, intensity, or
speech rate, iconicity can be detected in the phrasing of the message. It has already been …

In this paper we reflect upon the process of producing a dictionary of expressives in
Mundari, an Austroasiatic language spoken in Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha, in …

A—The Ksingmul people of the northern Laos-Vietnam border area have been known within
local Tai social systems as Puak, a derogatory term that evokes images of forest-eating …

Santali is a member of the North Munda (Kherwarian) subgroup of the Munda family within
Austroasiatic, closely related to languages such as Mundari and Ho. While speakers are …