Colour Terms in Russian: Reflections of Typological Constraints in a Single Language
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Corbett, Greville G. and Morgan, Gerry (1988) Colour Terms in Russian: Reflections of Typological Constraints in a Single Language Journal of Linguistics, 24 (1). pp. 31-64. ISSN 0022-2267
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022226700011555
Abstract
One of the milestones in typological studies is Berlin & Kay's (1969) account of basic colour terms, which has produced a steady stream of research of various types. Berlin & Kay summarized their work as follows. In sum, our two major findings indicate that the referents for the basic color terms of all languages appear to be drawn from a set of eleven universal perceptual categories, and these categories become encoded in the history of a given language in a partially fixed order (1969: 4–5).
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Published in Journal of Linguistics 24(1): 31-64. © 1988 Cambridge University Press. Click here to access the article on the publisher's website. |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences > English and Languages > English > Surrey Morphology Group |
| ID Code: | 1330 |
| Deposited By: | Mr Adam Field |
| Deposited On: | 27 May 2010 15:40 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2012 12:36 |
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