David A. Warburton

List of John Benjamins publications for which David A. Warburton plays a role.

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Warburton, David A. 2007 Basic color term evolution in the light of ancient evidence from the Near East Anthropology of Color: Interdisciplinary multilevel modeling, MacLaury, Robert E., Galina V. Paramei and Don Dedrick (eds.), pp. 229–246 | Article
Ancient languages rely on concrete and specific meaning rather than abstraction, naming basic color categories differently than do the contemporary languages upon which Berlin and Kay base their universalist evolutionary theory. The ancient languages named red and blue with words transparently… read more