Ian Davies

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ian Davies is involved.

Article

Hippisley, Andrew, Ian Davies and Greville G. Corbett 2008 The basic colour terms of Lower Sorbian and Upper Sorbian and their typological relevance Studies in Language 32:1, pp. 56–92 | Article

Berlin & Kay’s basic colour term framework claims that there is an ordering in the diachronic development of languages’ colour systems. One generalisation is that primary colours, WHITE, BLACK, RED, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, are lexical­ised before derived colours, which are perceptual blends, e.g.… read more