Edited by Ida Raffaelli, Daniela Katunar and Barbara Kerovec
[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 78] 2019
► pp. 401–426
In this chapter, I determine Iron Ossetic's basic color terms and the place of the Iron Ossetic system in the evolutionary sequence of the development of basic color terms. I examine the semantics and use of basic and non-basic color terms, morphological and lexical color modifiers, the main patterns used to describe color in modern Ossetic as well as connotations of color terms. I conclude by comparing the peculiarities of the Ossetic color system with the systems of some other Iranian languages.
This study is based on the methodology proposed by A. Majid, F. Jordan, and M. Dunn (2011). The Ossetic material is taken from the field data collected in North Ossetia, Russia, and data from the Ossetic corpora.