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Areal patterns and colexifications of colour terms in the languages of Africa
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In: ISSN: 1430-0532 ; EISSN: 1613-415X ; Linguistic Typology ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03483348 ; Linguistic Typology, De Gruyter, 2021, ⟨10.1515/lingty-2021-2085⟩ (2021)
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Areal patterns and colexifications of colour terms in the languages of Africa
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In: ISSN: 1430-0532 ; EISSN: 1613-415X ; Linguistic Typology ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03483348 ; Linguistic Typology, De Gruyter, 2021, ⟨10.1515/lingty-2021-2085⟩ (2021)
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Abstract:
International audience ; Although colour terms are the semantic domain which has attracted the largest number of studies, notably from a typological point of view, searching the large online cross-linguistic lexical database of African languages (RefLex, Segerer & Flavier 2011-2019) pointed out several previously undetected areal colexification patterns and shared lexico-constructional patterns in a genetically balanced sample of 401 languages spoken Africa. In this paper, we illustrate several areal characteristics of colours terms along three scenarios: (i) the spread of an areal feature due to a common extra-linguistic setting (locust bean-Parkia biglobosaas 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 was considered difficult to borrow.
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[SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics; African languages; areal patterns; borrowing; colexification; colour terms; convergence phenomena; database; ideophones; shared lexico-constructional pattern
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2021-2085 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03483348/file/Final_Segerer_Vanhove_areal_colours-AHS-edits.pdf https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03483348 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03483348/document
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