Ideophones in Tamil: Historical observations on the morphology of X-eṉal expressives

Jean-Luc Chevillard (1)

1 HTL - HTL - Histoire des Théories Linguistiques - UMR 7597

This article will deal with the continued presence in Tamil, from its earliest observable condition upto the present situation, of a class of words or, more precisely, a class of expressions that I shall designate here as "ideophones".

Mots clés: Linguistics; Morphology; Tamil; Ideophones

Mots clés: Linguistique; morphologie; tamoul

Domaines: Linguistique

Jean-Luc Chevillard. Ideophones in Tamil: Historical observations on the morphology of X-eṉal expressives. 17th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies Heidelberg, Tamil Studies: Current Trends and Perspectives, second session : Tamil Linguistics and Epigraphy, Sep 2002, Heidelberg, Germany. pp.76. ⟨halshs-00671107⟩