Rara #3

Legacy number: 3

 Number  3
 Phenomenon  (a) two basic colour terms for BLUE and LIGHT BLUE
(b) and at the same time none for PURPLE
 Found in  (a) Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian (East Slavonic, IE); Guatemalan Spanish, Italian (Romance, IE); Nepali (Indo-Aryan, IE); Turkish (Altaic)

(b) Russian from 17/18th up to early 19th century
 Domain  lexicon — basic terms
 Type  nonesuch
 Keywords  colour terms
 Source  Corbett, Greville G. & Gerry Morgan (1988). Colour terms in Russian: Reflections of typological constraints in a single language. Journal of Linguistics 24: 31-64.
Hippisley, Andrew (2001). Basic BLUE in East Slavonic. Linguistics 39: 151-179.
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Discussion
Notes
Or do suchlike finds belong with MORPHOLOGICAL rara/rarissima/nonesuches, since basicness crucially includes being morphologically simple or at any rate non-compositional?
Comment
Frans Plank · 21 Sep 2006
Or do suchlike finds belong with MORPHOLOGICAL rara/rarissima/nonesuches,
since basicness crucially includes being morphologically simple or at any rate non-compositional?