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1. Colexification and semantic change in colour terms in Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European languages
University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : 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
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