Abstract:The present article analyses the semantic structure of the colour term أﺧﻀﺮ (aḫḍar) (green) in Arabic to establish whether it has undergone a change in terms of meanings and prototypes and to identify the motivating factors for its semantic change. The current study compares and contrasts the polysemy of أﺧﻀﺮ (aḫḍar) (green) in premodern texts and modern texts. To explore the meanings of the word أﺧﻀﺮ (aḫḍar) (green) and to identify its most frequent collocates and thus most prototypical meanings, the st… Show more
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