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In:Lexicalization patterns in color naming: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Ida Raffaelli, Daniela Katunar and Barbara Kerovec
[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 78] 2019
► pp. 269–286

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Lexicalization patterns in color naming in Croatian, Czech, and Polish

 | University of Zagreb
 | Charles UniversityPrague
 | CNRS & Université Lumière Lyon 2
Published online: 9 October 2019
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The goal of this chapter is to identify and describe strategies speakers of Croatian, Czech, and Polish use in color naming. The findings are based on the data from the cross-linguistic project Evolution of Semantic Systems (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, the Netherlands). Croatian, Czech, and Polish were among more than 50 Indo-European languages included in the project. In this study, we present the results of the color naming task for the three languages. The study identified the main lexicalization patterns that are productive in the formation of Croatian, Czech, and Polish color terms. They are the results of different grammatical mechanisms used in the lexicalization process. However, the languages differ with respect to the degree of conventionalization of these mechanisms in the domain of color terms.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Theoretical background
    • 2.1Universalist vs relativist approach to the study of colors
    • 2.2Linguistic conventionalization
    • 2.3Lexicalization patterns in color naming
  • 3.Method and data
  • 4.Types of lexicalization patterns used in color naming in Croatian, Czech, and Polish
    • 4.1Suffixation as a lexicalization pattern in the three languages
    • 4.2Compounding as a lexicalization pattern [Adj [o] Adj] in the three languages
    • 4.3The lexicalization patterns [Adv + Adj] and [Adj + Adj]
    • 4.4Nouns in color terms
  • 5.Some concluding remarks
  • Notes
  • References
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