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Publication details [#29768]
Davies, Ian and Greville G. Corbett. 1994. The basic color terms of Russian. Linguistics 32 (1) : 65–89. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN
0024-3949
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper confirms the exception status of Russian with regard to Berlin and Kay's (1969) theory of color universals, as it has twelve instead of eleven basic color terms, including two terms for blue.