Compound color terms in Italian

D'Achille, Paolo; Grossmann, Maria

doi:10.1075/sfsl.78.04gro

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“…Frequencies of use their modal terms are comparable, confirming the finding of Uusküla (2014). It is also worth noting that the Tuscan speakers' inventory includes a great variety of elaborated terms associated with both celeste and azzurro-derivatives, compounded and suffixed words (see Table 1), that is, the means of codifying different nuances of hue, brightness, and saturation (cf., Grossmann & D'Achille, 2019). This contrasts with the inventories from two other locations in Italy: in Alghero, the elaborated "blue" terms were associated predominantly with celeste but with azzurro in Verona (Paramei et al, 2018, Table 1).…”

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“…Next, raw naming data of all elicited "blue" terms were transformed into their modal correspondents with the focus on celeste, azzurro, and blu; also, other frequent non-BCTs terms were considered (turchese, indaco, cobalto, ciano, etc.). The modal terms of celeste, azzurro, and blu included the basic forms, as well as their derivatives (e.g., celestino, azzurrino, bluastro), compound terms either with an adjective (e.g., bianco celeste, azzurro verde, blu nero) or a noun (e.g., celeste cielo, azzurro acqua, blu notte), and terms with brightness or saturation modifiers (e.g., celeste intense, azzurro scuro, blu oltreoceano) (cf., Bimler & Uusküla, 2014;Grossmann & D'Achille, 2019;Uusküla & Bimler, 2020). Note that non-"blue" terms (grigio, verde, nero, etc.…”

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“…Azzurro is indeed deeply entrenched in Italian: there is converging evidence from linguistic corpus analysis (Grossmann & D'Achille, 2016;Ronga, 2009), listing task (Bimler & Uusküla, 2018), idiomatic expressions (Ronga et al, 2014;Sandford, 2015), and derivational productivity (Grossmann & D'Achille, 2019;Mazzoni & Grossmann, 1988). Azzurro has been attested already in the ninth century, originally having denoted lapis lazuli (Frison & Brun, 2016).…”

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Florence “blues” are clothed in triple basic terms

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Psycholinguistic studies provide evidence that Italian has more than one basic color term (BCT) for “blue”: consensually, blu denotes “dark blue,” while “light-and-medium blue,” with diatopic variation, is termed either azzurro or celeste. For Tuscan speakers (predominantly from Florence), the BLUE area is argued to linguistically differentiate between azzurro “medium blue” and celeste “light blue.” We scrutinized “basicness” of the three terms. Participants ( N = 31; university students/graduates born in Tuscany) named each chip of eight Munsell charts encompassing the BLUE area (5BG-5PB; N = 237) using an unconstrained color-naming method. They then indicated the “best exemplar” (focal color) of blu, azzurro and celeste. We found that frequencies of the three terms and of term derivatives were comparable. Referential meaning of blu, azzurro, and celeste was estimated in CIELAB space as L*a*b*-coordinates of the mean of focal colors and as “modal” categories, that is, dispersion around the mean. The three “blue” terms were distinct on both measures and separated along all three CIELAB dimensions but predominantly along the L*-dimension. Our results provide evidence that Tuscan speakers require all three terms for naming the BLUE area, categorically refined along the lightness dimension. Furthermore, celeste appears to be a third BCT for “blue,” along with commonly considered BCTs azzurro and blu. The “triple blues” as BCTs for Tuscan speakers are in contrast with outcomes of two “blue” basic terms estimated by using the same methodology in two other locations in Italy— azzurro and blu (Verona, Veneto region) or celeste and blu (Alghero, Sardinia).

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Florence “blues” are clothed in triple basic terms

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“…Una strategia alla quale l'italiano contemporaneo ricorre frequentemente per arricchire l'inventario dei termini di colore consiste nella formazione di composti costituiti da due aggettivi o da un aggettivo e un nome (Grossmann & D'Achille 2019).…”

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Storia dei termini di colore italiani nell'area ROSA

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2023

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This article is part of a series of studies that the authors have dedicated to the history of Italian colourterminology. §1. highlights some of the theses of Berlin & Kay (1969) and other scholars, with particularreference to the distinction between basic and non-basic terms. §2. is dedicated to the history of colour termsin the PINK area from Old Italian to contemporary Italian, and to the emergence of rosa as a basic colour term.This section also delves into their figurative meanings and the fixed collocations in which they occur. §3. dealswith the terms formed by means of morphological devices that are most frequently used in Italian to enrich thecolor lexicon.

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