Anna V. Shevlyakova
List of John Benjamins publications in which Anna V. Shevlyakova is involved.
Article
2023 Linguistic mechanisms of colour term evolution: A diachronic investigation of “Russian browns” buryj and koričnevyj Diachronica 40:4, pp. 492–531 | Article
We investigated diachrony of distributional semantics of two competing Russian colour terms (CTs) for ‘brown’, buryj (11th century) and koričnevyj (17th century), using the Russian subcorpus of Google Books Ngram (2020). Time-series analysis (1800–2019) of bigrams gauged each term’s frequencies… read more
