Areal patterns and colexifications of colour terms in the languages of Africa
Areal patterns and colexifications of colour terms in the languages of Africa
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非洲语言中颜色术语的面积模式和共词化
DOI:
10.1515/lingty-2021-2085
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发表时间:
2021
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2
通讯作者:
M. Vanhove
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作者:
Guillaume Segerer;M. Vanhove
Abstract Of all the semantic domains, colour terms have attracted the largest amount of attention, notably from a typological point of view. However, there is much more to be discovered. A search of the cross-linguistic lexical database of African languages (RefLex) reveals several previously undetected areal colexification patterns and shared lexico-constructional patterns in a genetically balanced sample of 401 languages. In this paper, we illustrate several areal characteristics of colour terms: (i) the spread of an areal feature due to a common extra-linguistic setting (locust bean – Parkia biglobosa – as the lexical source of yellow); (ii) two convergence phenomena, one based on a shared lexico-constructional pattern including a term for water, and one based on shared colexifications (red and ripe vs. green and unripe); and (iii) an areal pattern of lexical diffusion of colour ideophones, a category which has thus far been considered difficult to borrow.
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发表时间:
2011
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Geographical Typology and Linguistic Area-with Special Reference to Africa. Studies in Corpus-based Linguistics and Language Education. Tokyo : TUFS.(Koenig, C., Hieda, O.and Nakagawa, H.(eds.))
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作者:
Nakagawa;Hirosi
通讯作者:
Hirosi