Thorhalla Gudmundsdottir Beck
Linguist, crafter, writer, cartoonist, weight lifter, choir bass, from the distant blue of East Iceland, raised by mountains, sheep, and true people of the land. Likes everything creative, fun loving people, and chocolate (and cheese, and cream, and butter…).
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lexicalization strategies used for these categories in English, German, Bernese, Danish,
Swedish, Norwegian and Icelandic with the cognate sets pink, rosa, bleikur, lyserød, ceris.
In the 18th century, a particular shade of light red established itself in the cultural life of
people in Western Europe, earning its own independent colour term. In the middle of the
20th century, a second pink category began to spread in a subset of the languages.
Contemporary experimental data from the Evolution of Semantic Systems colour project
(Majid et al., 2011) is analysed in light of the extant historical data on the development of
these colour terms. We find that the current pink situation arose through contact-induced
lexical and conceptual change. Despite the different lexicalization strategies, the terms’
denotation is remarkably similar for the oldest pink category and we investigate the
impact of the advent of the younger and more restricted secondary pink category on the
colour categorization and colour denotations of the languages.
lexicalization strategies used for these categories in English, German, Bernese, Danish,
Swedish, Norwegian and Icelandic with the cognate sets pink, rosa, bleikur, lyserød, ceris.
In the 18th century, a particular shade of light red established itself in the cultural life of
people in Western Europe, earning its own independent colour term. In the middle of the
20th century, a second pink category began to spread in a subset of the languages.
Contemporary experimental data from the Evolution of Semantic Systems colour project
(Majid et al., 2011) is analysed in light of the extant historical data on the development of
these colour terms. We find that the current pink situation arose through contact-induced
lexical and conceptual change. Despite the different lexicalization strategies, the terms’
denotation is remarkably similar for the oldest pink category and we investigate the
impact of the advent of the younger and more restricted secondary pink category on the
colour categorization and colour denotations of the languages.