Essays about: "colour semantics"

Found 3 essays containing the words colour semantics.

  1. 1. Thoughts don't have Colour, do they? : Finding Semantic Categories of Nouns and Adjectives in Text Through Automatic Language Processing

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : Per Fallgren; [2017]
    Keywords : semantic representations; semantic categories; word vectors; adjective noun pair;

    Abstract : Not all combinations of nouns and adjectives are possible and some are clearly more fre- quent than other. With this in mind this study aims to construct semantic representations of the two types of parts-of-speech, based on how they occur with each other. READ MORE

  3. 2. 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

  4. 3. Sex, communism, and dangerous red things - On the semantics of the Hungarian words piros and vörös

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Jessica Presits; [2017]
    Keywords : linguistics; colour semantics; basic colour terms; linguistic relativity; Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; piros; vörös; Hungarian; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The topic of Basic Colour Terms (BCT) and their proposed universality has long been a source of debate within linguistics. Whether colour terms (as symbols) fill lexical gaps of presumed universal colour categories (as senses) or not is relevant for the debate regarding linguistic relativity: the hypothesis about the influence of language on the way we think. READ MORE