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Word-formation and meaning of colour terms in Croatian, Czech and Polish

How closely related languages construe meaning in the semantic domain of colour? Slavic languages have a relatively rich inventory of derivational affixes that allow to derive adjectives (as well as nouns) from nominals. Besides, they also use compounding as a word- formation process to construe complex adjectives, including adjectives for colours. Do speakers of Slavic languages rely on these word-formation processes to the same extent or do they vary in the way they use them to describe similar stimuli of colours? To investigate this question we explore data from Croatian, Czech and Polish that we collected using the visual material designed at the Max Planck Institute for a crosslinguistic project Evolution of Semantic Systems (Majid & Levinson (2007) ; Majid, Jordan & Dunn (2015)). In particular, we examine which types of meanings of colour terms are conveyed via derivation (suffixation) or compounding, as the two most pervasive word-formation processes, in the three Slavic languages.

colour terms ; word formation ; meaning ; Croatian ; Polish ; Czech

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