This article examines the form-meaning correspondences that can be found in Spanish onomatopoeias. It is argued that onomatopoeias can refer to events, and as such, they carry aspectual meaning. In them it is possible to identify a classification in three parts, depending on whether the onomatopoeia has obligatory reduplication or vowel alternation. The reduplication represents the complexity of the internal event, as a bipartite transition or an extended activity; the vowel alternation denotes an internal change of state; it is argued that these two ways of marking iconically represent each one of these two components of aspectual structure.
Fábregas, A. (2016). A note on the iconic expression of the lexical aspect of onomatopeias. Lenguas Modernas, (45), Pág. 39 – 57. Retrieved from https://lenguasmodernas.uchile.cl/index.php/LM/article/view/42717
