Basic BLUE in East Slavonic(1). From: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the languagesciences | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: HIPPISLEY, ANDREW | COPYRIGHT 2001 Walter de Gruyter und Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Abstract

Russian's second BLUE term goluboj `light blue' constitutes a well-known exception to the Berlin and Kay basic color-term typology. If other Slavonic languages do not have a second BLUE term, then the special position of Russian requires explanation; if there is evidence pointing to two basic terms for BLUE, we have a second set of data for investigating the evolution of this unusual color system. The languages genetically closest to Russian, Ukrainian and Bela...