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João Paulo Silvestre, Esperança Cardeira & Alina Villalva (eds.)

João Paulo Silvestre, Esperança Cardeira &

Alina V

illalva (eds.) Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa | Universidade de Aveiro

Colour terms behave quite differently across languages, similar to the way in which our psychological interpretation varies in response to refl ected visible light. Indeed, from a linguistic perspective, a defi nitive explanation of basic colour terms still eludes many researchers of different disciplines, posing both cognitive and lexical issues. The Colour and Colour Naming conference, held in 2015 at the University of Lisbon, offered a chance to explore colour naming processes from a cross-linguistic approach. Scholars were invited to present and submit their own research for discussion, covering a wide range of fi elds, notably that of lexicology, lexicography, comparative linguistics, morphology, historical linguistics and cultural studies.

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DICIONARÍSTICAPORTUGUESA- V

Colourandcolournaming:

crosslinguisticapproaches

JoãoPauloSilvestre,EsperançaCardeira&AlinaVillalva(eds.)

CENTRODELINGUÍSTICADAUNIVERSIDADEDELISBOAUNIVERSIDADEDEAVEIRO

2016

Título|Colourandcolournaming:crosslinguisticapproaches

Coleção|DicionarísticaPortuguesa

Autoreseditores|JoãoPauloSilvestre,EsperançaCardeira&AlinaVillalva

Edição|CentrodeLinguísticadaUniversidadedeLisboa-UniversidadedeAveiro

Impressão|Clássica-ArtesGráficas

Capa|JanLuyken,1689

DepósitoLegal|413885/16

ISBN|978-989-98666-2-1

Tiragem|250exemplares

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Contents

Presentation……………………….…………………………………………………………….………………….. 3

I.Colournames,pan-Europeanperspective

Adiachronicoverviewofcolortermsintheromancelanguages:thelexicalstabilityofthelatincolorvocabulary ………………………………………………………………….. 9|StevenN.DworkinItaliancolourtermsintheBLUEarea:synchronyanddiachrony............................ 21|MariaGrossmann&PaoloD’AchilleEuropean(dis)unionofcolours:secondarybasiccolourtermsinPolish,PortugueseandSpanish …………………………………...………………………………………………… 51|EwaStala&PrzemysławDębowiakPretoandnegro,pardo,mestiçoandmulato……...............................…….………………. 71|EsperançaCardeiraII.CategorizationandlexicographicdescriptionColourfulmicrostructures:howItaliandictionariesseecolourterms…….............… 91|CarlaMarello&CristinaOnestiOnthegrammaticalsubstanceofcolourwords………………………………....………….…...105|AlinaVillalvaMetaphorandemotionincolourwords………………………................………………………. 130|ErlingStrudsholm,CarlaBazzanella&IreneRongaColourverbsinEnglishandRomanian….................……………………………………………. 145|AdinaCameliaBleotu