Onomatopoeia in Datooga Nouns
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https://doi.org/10.61307/gjl.v13i1.531Keywords:
DATOOGA, Datooga Nouns, Ideophones, OnomatopoeiaAbstract
Central to this study is onomatopoeia in Datooga, a Southern Nilotic language spoken in Tanzania, nouns. The study looks at the forms of Onomatopoeia in Datooga nouns and their place in the grammatical system of the language. The study has observed that, onomatopoeia takes three forms in the language. The first form reflects a purely sound imitation and has a sub form where the sound imitating element takes the number/definiteness marking component. The second form reflects the fair approach to onomatopoeia as it involves derivation process which combines with the sound imitating components. The gender marking prefixes combine with the sound mimicry elements. The third form involves sound mimicry understood from semantic extension and cognitive approaches where metonymical extension is central in realization of the sound imitation. On the place of onomatopoeia in the Datooga grammatical system, the study finds onomatopoeia in concurrence with the Datooga grammatical system though in the morphological aspect, onomatopoeia dwells in the marked morphology of the language.
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