The modern Japanese color lexicon

A Study of Loan Color Terms Collocation in Modern Japanese

The Japanese lexicon consists of Japanese-origin words (WAGO), Chinese-origin words (KANGO) and words borrowed from English and other European languages (GAIRAIGO). The acquisition of words from three sources results in the abundance of near synonyms without any clear rules when a particular synonym should be used. Loveday has hypothesized that WAGO/KANGO and GAIRAIGO concrete nouns are used to...

Demonstration of Multi Statutory of the Adjective “Just” in Modern Adjectival English Lexicon

This article concerns the general functional features of an adjective in modern English, and in particular multistate lexical item “just”, which carries different meanings in different variants of combinatorics. The authors analyze the combinations used with the adjectival lexeme item “just” and reveal the categories that determine the degree of semantic content of each given statement. The nee...

Japanese Ditransitive Verbs and the Hierarchical Lexicon

The color lexicon of American English.

This article describes color naming by 51 American English-speaking informants. A free-naming task produced 122 monolexemic color terms, with which informants named the 330 Munsell samples from the World Color Survey. Cluster analysis consolidated those terms into a glossary of 20 named color categories: the 11 Basic Color Term (BCT) categories of Berlin and Kay (1969, p. 2) plus nine nonbasic ...

Creating a free digital Japanese-Swedish lexicon

This paper describes the creation of a Japanese-Swedish dictionary. The well known technique of using English as an intermediate language was used. A few modifications of this method are presented, such as weighting words with an idf-like measure and allowing one Japanese word to be described by several Swedish words when there is no directly corresponding translation available. For about 60,00...