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"ref": "2017, Sam Gray, Classifications of Mundari Expressives and Other Reduplicated Structures (thesis)",
"text": "I examine the valency of expressives, a class of ideophones in Mundari, comparing their behaviors as predicates to those of reduplicated verb forms."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A word or phrase, belonging to a distinct word class or having distinct morphosyntactic properties, with semantic symbolism (for example, an onomatopoeia), variously considered either a synonym, a hypernym or a hyponym of ideophone."
],
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
[
"onomatopoeia",
"onomatopoeia#English"
],
[
"ideophone",
"ideophone#English"
]
],
"qualifier": "more narrowly",
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics, more narrowly) A word or phrase, belonging to a distinct word class or having distinct morphosyntactic properties, with semantic symbolism (for example, an onomatopoeia), variously considered either a synonym, a hypernym or a hyponym of ideophone."
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ɪkˈspɹɛsɪv/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛsɪv"
},
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2f/En-us-expressive.ogg/En-us-expressive.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/En-us-expressive.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"word": "expressive"
}
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