This volume represents a unique collection of chapters on the way in which color is categorized and named in a number of languages. Although color research has

A distinguished cross-disciplinary reassessment of the work of Berlin and Kay on colour categories.

Explores the psychophysical and neurophysical determinants of cross-linguistic constraints on the shape of color lexicons.

The 1969 publication of Brent Berlin and Paul Kay's Basic Color Terms proved explosive and controversial. Contrary to the then-popular doctrine of random langua

The field of color categorization has always been intrinsically multi- and inter-disciplinary, since its beginnings in the nineteenth century. The main contribu