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

Autori
Raffaelli, Ida ; Anetta Kopecka, Jan Chromy

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Booklet of abstracts - 17th International Morphology Meeting / Rainer, Franz et al. - Beč, 2016, 187-188

Skup
17th International Morpholoy Meeting

Mjesto i datum
Beč, Austrija, 18.02.2016. - 21.02.2016

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

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

Sažetak
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.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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