Re: Color Terms

On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:41:48 -0400, John Cowan <cowan@...>
wrote:

>> orange-red. So even eliminating the rare secondary colors (lime,
>> turquoise), Jarrda still doesn't quite follow the pattern of human
>> languages, since "brown" is supposed to be more basic than "orange" or
>> "gray".
>
>Not so.  Once we get past black, white, red, blue, yellow, and green,
>the others can be added in any order.
Not according to the article:

6.If a language encodes 7 categories, it contains a term for brown, in
addition to the terms encoded in the
     previous stage.=20

   7.If a language encodes 8 or more categories, it contains terms for
purple, pink, orange, grey, or some
     combination of these, in addition to the terms encoded in the =
previous
stage.=20


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