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Colour terms in Russian: reflections of typological constraints in a single language*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Greville Corbett  and
Gerry Morgan
Greville Corbett
Affiliation:
University of Surrey
Gerry Morgan
Affiliation:
University of Surrey
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One of the milestones in typological studies is Berlin & Kay's (1969) account of basic colour terms, which has produced a steady stream of research of various types. Berlin & Kay summarized their work as follows.

In sum, our two major findings indicate that the referents for the basic color terms of all languages appear to be drawn from a set of eleven universal perceptual categories, and these categories become encoded in the history of a given language in a partially fixed order (1969: 4–5).

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , March 1988 , pp. 31 - 64
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