Ian Davies
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ian Davies plays a role.
Article
The basic colour terms of Lower Sorbian and Upper Sorbian and their typological relevance Studies in Language 32:1, pp. 56–92 | Article
2008 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