Terminología cromática aleuta

The scope of this paper is to analyze the Aleut chromatic lexicon in order to check whether it follows the existing “universals” claimed by Berlin and Kay few decades ago. As it will be showed, Aleut belongs to those languages that do not follow them. In fact, by means of etymology shall be demonstr...

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Main Author: Alonso de la Fuente, José Andrés
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Spanish
Published: Ediciones Complutense 2008
Subjects:
Kay
Online Access:https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/REAA/article/view/REAA0808120075A
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Summary:The scope of this paper is to analyze the Aleut chromatic lexicon in order to check whether it follows the existing “universals” claimed by Berlin and Kay few decades ago. As it will be showed, Aleut belongs to those languages that do not follow them. In fact, by means of etymology shall be demonstrated that the formation of such chromatic vocabulary in Aleut is recent and secondary.