ABSTRACT
Ideophones play an imporant role in nigerian pidgin. it is impossible to understand the phonological and grammatical systems of the language without an understanding of the ideophonic components of those systems. since ideophone generation is a productive process, it is impossible to list all members of the class of ideophones. as mentioned in section 1-3-1-1-4, there is some overlap between the categories ‘ideophone’, ‘adverb’, ‘auxiliary’ and ‘verb’ (especially ‘serialized verb’). The following criteria define the most important characteristics that serve to demarcate the class of ideophones from other word classes.
