Sinitic ideophones
I have always felt that binoms are a key to studying early vernacular Sinitic. (See "Selected readings" below for useful references on this topic.) Now we have a valuable research tool for access to and analysis of premodern Sinitic binoms, which fall within the purview of the tabulated listings introduced here:
The Chinese Ideophone Database (CHIDEOD)
L’ ensemble de données des idéophones chinois (CHIDEOD)
In: Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale (Brill)
Authors: Thomas VAN HOEY and Arthur Lewis THOMPSON
Online Publication Date: 26 Oct 2020
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