Urmas Sutrop
List of John Benjamins publications in which Urmas Sutrop is involved.
Articles
2014 The basic color terms of Mandarin Chinese: A theory-driven experimental study Studies in Language 38:2, pp. 335–359 | Article
In this paper the theory of the evolution of basic color terms introduced by Berlin & Kay is applied to Mandarin Chinese. The data was collected using the fieldwork methods, color list and color-naming tasks. The rainbow order of colors does not affect the list task results. The results, i.e. basic… read more
2011 Towards a semiotic theory of basic colour terms and the semiotics of Juri Lotman New Directions in Colour Studies, Biggam, Carole P., Carole Hough, Christian Kay and David R. Simmons (eds.), pp. 39–48 | Article
Semioticians like BCT theory, although there is no semiotic theory of BCTs. In Juri Lotman’s modelling framework, one can analyze the BCTs using the formula “language = code + history” and abandon the technical definition of a BCT (a term is basic if it is frequent and passes some hurdles in… read more