The canonical syntactic home of ideophones in Siwu is toward the end of the clause. A finer analysis of patterns of occurrence in the corpus reveals a number of constructions in which ideophones can occur. The five most common constructions, together accounting for 95 % of ideophone tokens, are shown here.
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Dingemanse, M. (2017). Expressiveness and system integration. On the typology of ideophones, with special reference to Siwu.
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