Verba sonandi et animaux en français et en serbe

Ch. 6. P. 55–63.

Ryzhova D., Kyuseva M.

In this paper we provide a comparative analysis of French and Serbian
verbs of animal sounds. The study is based on data from dictionaries, national corpora and surveys of native speakers. The results show that in French and Serbian the total amount of verbs of animal sounds is quite similar, but they differ significantly in their distribution.

An analysis of semantic shifts in these verbs allows to divide them in two groups. The first one includes figurative denotations of sounds produced by people, artefacts or by natural objects (such as snow, see, forest, etc.); the metaphors within this type are recurrent in various languages.
Verbs in the other group shift into meanings not related to sound; these metaphors are more language-specific.

Keywords: французский язык, French language, semantic shift, семантический сдвиг, lexical typology, лексическая типология, глаголы звука, verba sonandi, Serbian language, сербский язык

Publication based on the results of: База данных как инструмент лексико-типологических исследований: глаголы звука и модели их семантической деривации (2014)

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Verba sonandi : Représentation linguistique des cris d’animaux

Presses Universitaires de Provence, 2017.