Color terms and lexical classes in Krahn Wobe

Many West African languages lack a separate category of adjectives; Krahn and Wore are also said to lack this lexical class. However, an examination of color terms in the Gborbo dialect of Liberian Krahn reveals a class of words which are neither nouns or verbs After describing the syntactic behavio...

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Autor principal:	Janet Mueller Bing
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Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 1991
Materias:	Krahn Wore adjectives Gborbo Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:1e5624c8c1414efa8445a8a6d8fa1ec82021-11-19T03:54:17ZColor terms and lexical classes in Krahn Wobe10.32473/sal.v22i3.1074190039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/1e5624c8c1414efa8445a8a6d8fa1ec81991-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107419https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XMany West African languages lack a separate category of adjectives; Krahn and Wore are also said to lack this lexical class. However, an examination of color terms in the Gborbo dialect of Liberian Krahn reveals a class of words which are neither nouns or verbs After describing the syntactic behavior of nouns and verbs and color nouns and verbs, it is shown that a third class of color words must be considered adjectives. The data supports proposals by Givon and Dixon that, universally, lexical categories are semantically based.Janet Mueller BingLibraryPress@UFarticleKrahnWoreadjectivesGborboPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 22, Iss 3 (1991)
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description	Many West African languages lack a separate category of adjectives; Krahn and Wore are also said to lack this lexical class. However, an examination of color terms in the Gborbo dialect of Liberian Krahn reveals a class of words which are neither nouns or verbs After describing the syntactic behavior of nouns and verbs and color nouns and verbs, it is shown that a third class of color words must be considered adjectives. The data supports proposals by Givon and Dixon that, universally, lexical categories are semantically based.
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Color terms and lexical classes in Krahn Wobe

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