CONCEPT OF COLOR IN THE UDIHE LANGUAGE
DOI: 10.23951/2307-6119-2018-1-69-75
This paper investigates Adjectives and Nouns, denoting colours. The term Concept is supposed to be synonymous to the term Semantic field that include all initial and derivative lexemes. The present paper is accented on some peculiarities of world-building characterizing Udihe adjectives of Colour. Thematic group with the semantics of Colour is quite diverse. Various illustrations are presented in the paper. Different models of word-building are analyzed: a) Adjectives may be formed from Verbs; b) some Adjectives also may form Verbs (affixation); c) conversion is widely used in the thematic group in question; d) production of compound words (e.g. some political terms or some words denoting animals). If in the structure of compound word there is obvious indication of Colour, such word belongs to the thematic group under consideration (e.g. čaligi sula‘i “polar fox”, čaligi mafa “polar bear”).
Keywords: Colours, Word-building, Affixation, Conversion, Adjective, Noun (Subject)
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Issue: 1, 2018
Series of issue: Issue 1
Rubric: LINGUISTICS
Pages: 69 — 75
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