Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Dr Robert E. MacLaury 1944–2004: An Appreciation ix
5. Abbreviations xi
6. Section 1: Theoretical and methodological approaches
7. The semantics of colour 1
8. A grammatical network of Tzotzil-Mayan colour terms 25
9. Quantitative linguistics in the study of colour terminology 37
10. Basic colour terms and type modification 57
11. Beyond colour 73
12. The normativity of colour 89
13. Section 2: Modern languages
14. Age-related differences in the basic colour vocabulary of French 101
15. Towards a general description of the semantic field of colour in European Portuguese 111
16. Evolving secondary colours 127
17. Colour terms in Nova Scotia 145
18. Section 3: Historical approaches
19. Political upheaval and a disturbance in the colour vocabulary of Early English 159
20. Colours of the landscape 181
21. The medieval gaze at grips with a medieval world 199
22. Index 219