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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. 379–400

From object to color and back

Seeing the world in color in Croatian, Turkish, and Arabic

| University of Zagreb
| University of Zagreb
| University of Zagreb
This chapter deals with lexicalization patterns of color terms and lexical units derived from color terms in Croatian, Turkish, and Arabic, three typologically and socioculturally different languages. The focus of the analysis is the relationship between object and color in: (a) the way the languages exploit the object for color conceptualization strategy in order to name colors and (b) the way languages use the color for object conceptualization strategy in order to lexicalize different phenomena of experience. In addition, one of the main aims of the analysis is to see which lexicalization patterns in the three languages are used productively in both types of conceptualization strategies.
Keywords: color terms, lexicalization patterns, conceptualization strategies, Croatian, Turkish, Arabic
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Lexicalization patterns of color term formation in Croatian, Turkish, and Arabic
    • 2.1object for color lexicalization patterns
      • 2.1.1Basic color terms in Croatian, Turkish, and Arabic – simplex forms and suffixation
        • 2.1.1.1Croatian
        • 2.1.1.2Arabic
        • 2.1.1.3Turkish
      • 2.1.2The genitive/possessive construction in Croatian, Turkish, and Arabic
      • 2.1.3Differing sociocultural tendencies in the object for color lexicalization patterns
    • 2.2Compounding and hue overlap
    • 2.3Brightness and intensity modification
  • 3.From object to color and back
    • 3.1Data collection and analysis
    • 3.2Domains lexicalized by color terms
  • 4.Concluding remarks and future work
  • Notes
  • References
  • Dictionaries
  • Online dictionaries and corpora
Published online: 9 October 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/sfsl.78.16kat
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