Les onomatopées verbales du tchèque
Czech verbal onomatopoeia

Summary/Abstract: This contribution aims to study the verbal onomatopoeia of Czech, which can be found for example in forms such as A pes haf na Magdu "And the dog haf on Magda", where the onomatopoeia haf "woof" is inserted directly in the sentence and functions as a predicate. We first situate these turns within the class of onomatopoeic words, in order to see what distinguishes them on the one hand from pure onomatopoeia, such as haf, and on the other hand from onomatopoeic verbs, such as hafnout "to bark". . We then propose an interpretation of verbal onomatopoeia within the framework of the psychomechanics of language and the concept of operability. We show in particular that verbal onomatopoeia maintain a specific relationship to language and discourse: they have indeed a value of onomatopoeia in language, but of verb in discourse. They retain from the verb only the property of external incidence, which allows them to find support in the noun and thus have a predicative function. Within onomatopoeic words, the intra-sentence nature of verbal onomatopoeia makes them late entries compared to pure onomatopoeia, which constitute "word-sentences", according to Tesnière's terminology. On the other hand, it is by their deficient verbal morphology that verbal onomatopoeia are distinguished from onomatopoeic verbs, which are provided with all the obligatory verbal categories. Verbal onomatopoeia thus correspond to an early grasp of onomatopoeic verbs during the genesis of the speech act.

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