TY  - JOUR
A1  - Elsen, Hilke
T1  - Ist das Phonästhem eine morphologische oder eine lautsymbolische Erscheinung?
T2  - Zeitschrift für Wortbildung : ZWJW = Journal of word formation
N2  - A phonestheme can be situated somewhere between a morpheme and a sound symbolic unit as well as between single-language and widespread appearance. Very often, phonesthemes are defined statistically. Consonant clusters like "gl-" appear in many words with certain aspects of meaning like "glint, glimmer, glitter". These cases seem to be restricted to individual languages or language families and resemble morphemes. A natural or iconic relationship between form and meaning is not obvious. Several authors, however, include sound symbolic phenomena with implicit natural features such as "i" for small things. This is a very widespread phenomenon and an example for some natural link between form and meaning. The article pleads for a two-fold definition and two types of phonesthemes. Further discussion takes into account the idea of an interrelation between increasing iconicity and higher diffusion as exemplified by the phonesthemes.
KW  - Phonästhem
KW  - Lautsymbolik
KW  - Wortbildung
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/70182
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-701826
SN  - 2367-3877
VL  - 1.2017
IS  - 2
SP  - 9
EP  - 29
PB  - Peter Lang
CY  - Berlin
ER  -