Essays about: "Kajsa Söderqvist"

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  1. 1. Colexification and semantic change in colour terms in Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European languages

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Kajsa Söderqvist; [2017]
    Keywords : colour terms; semantic change; etymology; lexical semantic change; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Colour terms is a highly interesting field when investigating linguistic universals and how language vary cross-linguistically. Colour semantics, the investigation of the meaning of colour, consists in largely of two opposing sides: the universalists, proposing that colour terms are universal (Berlin & Kay 1969) and the relativists claiming a variation in meaning cross-linguistically (Wierzbicka 2008). READ MORE