Colour terms in Russian: reflections of typological constraints in a single language
- 1 March 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Linguistics
- Vol. 24 (1) , 31-64
- https://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).Keywords
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