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Berlin, Brent; Kay, Paul – 1999
Ethnoscience studies, and studies of color vocabulary in particular, have firmly established that to understand the full range of meaning of a word in any language, each new language must be approached on its own terms, without a priori theories of semantic universals. It has been shown that color words in fact encode a great deal of…
Descriptors: Color, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Research, Language Typology
