Edited by Ida Raffaelli, Daniela Katunar and Barbara Kerovec
[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 78] 2019
► pp. 45–60
This chapter deals with lexicalization patterns in Slovak color naming on the basis of empirical data from the EoSS project (Evolution of Semantic Systems, 2011–2014, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen). Due to the developmental particularities of the Slovak color naming system, we can find word-formation, and other grammatical (e.g., syntactic) and semantic (e.g., metonymy) patterns featured in the creation of Slovak color terms in the structure of the contemporary Slovak language. For all these patterns, we use the term lexicalization pattern, which is involved in creating different semantic categories. Not all lexicalization patterns are equally productive in the division of the color spectrum. Therefore, we focus on their productivity, as well as on the dominant and peripheral types of meanings that have cultural roots.