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The language of color in the Mediterranean : an anthology on linguistic and ethnographic aspects of color terms / Alexander Borg, ed.

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The language of color in the Mediterranean : an anthology on linguistic and ethnographic aspects of color terms / Alexander Borg, ed.
Publication
Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1999.

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Additional Authors
Borg, Alexander
Description
x, 253 p.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Stockholm oriental studies, 0585-3559 ; 16
Uniform Title
Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Stockholm oriental studies 16.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • English and French.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Basic color terms : twenty-five years after / Robert MacLaury -- Vocabulary of color with particular reference to Ancient Greek and Classical Latin / John Lyons -- Emergence of basic color lexicons hypothesis : a comment on 'the vocabulary of color with particular reference to Ancient Greek and Classical Latin, ' by John Lyons / Paul Kay -- Termes fondamentaux de couleur en franc̜ais / Barbara Schäfer -- Color terms in Egyptian Arabic / Devin J. Stewart -- Linguistic and ethnographic observations on the color categories of the Negev Bedouin / Alexander Borg -- Sīni 'blue' and burtuqāli 'orange' : an historical note on early Chinese coffee cups / David Warburton -- Historical and cultural background of two non-basic terms for 'blue' in the Arabic dialect of the Negev Bedouin / Sylvia Powels -- Berber color terms / Karl -G. Prasse -- Quelques observations sur le rôle de la couleur bleue dans le Maghreb traditionnel / Pessah Shinar -- On color and the sacred in the Hebrew Bible / Athalya Brenner -- Éléments pour une étude des couleurs en judéo-espagnol / Marie Christine Varol -- Colors and the social order : symbolic classification in Central Africa / Anita Jacobson-Widding.
ISBN
9122018468
LCCN
^^^99515088^
OCLC
  • 42689084
  • SCSB-11014167
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library