Russian Language Studies (Dec 2015)

Structural Types of Composite Colour Terms

  • L V Sosnina

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 2
pp. 56 – 64

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The article deals with basic structural types of composite colour terms. Cognitive nature of these linguistic units is also examined here. From the point of word-formation theory there are two main groups of colouratives - univerbalization composites and units of quasi- composite building.

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