Basic Color Terms
Their Universality and Evolution
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1999
Centre for the Study of Language & Information (Verlag)
9781575861623 (ISBN)
Centre for the Study of Language & Information (Verlag)
9781575861623 (ISBN)
Explores the psychophysical and neurophysical determinants of cross-linguistic constraints on the shape of color lexicons.
The work reported in this monograph was begun in the winter of 1967 in a graduate seminar at Berkeley. Many of the basic data were gathered by members of the seminar and the theoretical framework presented here was initially developed in the context of the seminar discussions. Much has been discovered since 1969, the date of original publication, regarding the psychophysical and neurophysical determinants of universal, cross-linguistic constraints on the shape of basic color lexicons, and something, albeit less, can now also be said with some confidence regarding the constraining effects of these language-independent processes of color perception and conceptualization on the direction of evolution of basic color term lexicons.
The work reported in this monograph was begun in the winter of 1967 in a graduate seminar at Berkeley. Many of the basic data were gathered by members of the seminar and the theoretical framework presented here was initially developed in the context of the seminar discussions. Much has been discovered since 1969, the date of original publication, regarding the psychophysical and neurophysical determinants of universal, cross-linguistic constraints on the shape of basic color lexicons, and something, albeit less, can now also be said with some confidence regarding the constraining effects of these language-independent processes of color perception and conceptualization on the direction of evolution of basic color term lexicons.
Paul Kay is emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the University in 1966 as a member of the Department of Anthropology, transferred to the Department of Linguistics in 1982, and then became a Senior Researcher in artificial intelligence at the International Computer Science Institute. He is best known for his work with Brent Berlin on color, first published in Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution.
Preface; Introduction; 1. The data, hypothesis, and general findings; 2. Evolution of basic color terms; 3. The data; 4. Summary of results and some speculations; Appendix I; Appendix II; Appendix III; Appendix IV; Notes; References Cited; Bibliography; Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.6.1999 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The David Hume Series |
| Verlagsort | Stanford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 310 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781575861623 / 9781575861623 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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