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Color Categories as Fuzzy Sets. Working Papers of the Language Behavior Research Laboratory. No. 44.
Download full textKay, Paul; McDaniel, Chad K. – 1975
Since Berlin and Kay's proposal in 1969 of two universals concerning the meanings of basic color words, three kinds of information have become available to help in understanding the encoding sequence, that is, the temporal order in which the basic color categories are accorded lexical status. McDaniel (1972, 1974, forthcoming) demonstrates that…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Anthropology, Classification, Color
Peer reviewedMalkiel, Yakov – Lingua, 1975
Discusses the estrangement between etymology and modern linguistics, and concludes that a reconciliation between spatio-temporal linguistics and etymology must occur, because without it, both disciplines are doomed to inanition. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics, Etymology, Glottochronology
PDF pending restorationKay, Paul – 1969
Ethnographic semantics is that discipline which seeks to understand human cognition through an analysis of the cognitive content of linguistic expressions: that is, the systematic study of the meanings of words and the role of these meanings in cognitive systems. There are many misconceptions about the nature of ethnosemantics, however, and by…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Anthropology, Classification, Componential Analysis
Rey, Alain – 1970
This second volume in a series of French publications of specialized, introductory books on the study of linguistics presents a structured, panoramic view of the study of lexicology dating from the writings of Panini (4 B.C.) through recent linguistic developments. The selected readings, covering five major areas of concern, concentrate on: (1)…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Componential Analysis, Cultural Influences, Diachronic Linguistics
Berlin, Brent – 1969
Criticism has been directed at a growing body of literature broadly referred to as ethnoscience, ethnosemantics, folk science, ethnographic semantics, and cognitive anthropology. Criticisms concern methodological and analytic aspects of ethnoscientific procedure, and the directions of ethnosemantic research from a theoretical point of view. The…
Descriptors: African Languages, Anthropology, Classification, Color
Guiraud, Pierre; Kuentz, Pierre – 1970
This volume, first in a series of French publications of specialized, introductory books to the study of linguistics, develops a structured, panoramic view of characteristic thought concerning the study of stylistics. Five major areas, each presenting excerpts of significant publications on a particular aspect of the problem, are developed under:…
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Cultural Influences, Language Patterns, Language Research
Shevelov, George Y. – Slavic and East European Journal, 1957
Following a brief summary of Trubetzkoy's views of Russian word roots, a statistical analysis is performed on a short literary passage in seeking to examine whether all types of roots merely coexist in modern Russian or whether there is an expansion of certain types and a contraction of others. Results point out statistical and semantic…
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, Etymology, Language Patterns
