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