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Basic colour terms for black and white in Chinese: with discussions on models of language development

Author(s) -

Jingyi Gao

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri journal of estonian and finno-ugric linguistics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.142

H-Index - 5

eISSN - 2228-1339

pISSN - 1736-8987

DOI - 10.12697/jeful.2012.3.1.03

Subject(s) - linguistics , white (mutation) , chinese language , term (time) , philosophy , physics , biochemistry , chemistry , quantum mechanics , gene

The basic colour terms for black and white are studied in four archaic and two contemporary linguistic norms of the Chinese language. It is presented that studied Chinese linguistic norms use a common term for white and three different terms for black. It is suggested that the different basic colour terms for black might originate from different source languages. The study supports a panchronic language development instead of a diachronic one, and includes introductions to histories of the Chinese linguistic norms.

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