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Selected Lexical-Semantic Groups (Colour Terms, Kinship Terms)

Hill, Peter

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CTs contrast with stylistically or collocationally restricted CTs, e.g. Rukrasnyj ‘red’ vs. bagrjanyjorrumjanyj. Second-order CTs are understood to be hyponyms of basic CTs (e.g. Rualyj/krasnyj). Nuances can be expressed by combining adjectives: Rukorič-nevato-želtyj ‘brownish-yellow’. The Sl languages can form new CTs very easily, e.g. Rupesočnyj ‘sand-coloured’ <pesok‘sand’. CTs in Sl languages can be expressed also asverbs: *bělěti ‘to appear white, to be white’. CTs are often borrowed:...[Show more]

CollectionsANU Research Publications
Date published: 2014
Type: Book chapter
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/64140
Book Title: Die slavischen Sprachen/The Slavic Languages: An International Handbook of their Structure, their History and their Investigation
DOI: 10.1515/9783110215472.1740

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