Deideophonization turns depictive signs into descriptive ones by decreasing expressiveness and increasing morphosyntactic integration; ideophonization turns descriptive signs into depictive ones by increasing expressiveness and decreasing morphosyntactic integration.
This simple diagram was created in 2012, in a style that evokes typical Langackerian cognitive linguistics diagrams. Published (due to editorial delays) only in 2017.
The paper has a further variation on the theme, displaying the two types of ideophone constructions in Siwu as “Bound” versus “Free” and placing them on opposite ends of this continuum:
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Dingemanse, M. (2017). Expressiveness and system integration. On the typology of ideophones, with special reference to Siwu.
STUF - Language Typology and Universals ,
70 (2), 363–384. doi:
10.1515/stuf-2017-0018 PDF
