Ideophones between Roman dialect and Italian. A repertory of imitative dialect words

This paper focuses on that particular grammatical category known as the ideo-phone, typical of oral languages. It gathers together the ideophones recorded in the Roman lexicography and/or documented in literary texts in the Roman dia-lect or in mistilingual writings, which present dialect inserts on an Italian linguis-tic basis, from the 16th to the 20th century. An initial repertory of Roman ideo-phones is thus prepared, allowing a concrete evaluation of the weight of the imi-tative component in the dialect variety examined here, also in relation to Italian.