Re: What counts as a basic color word?
| From: | Amanda Babcock <langs@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 4, 2003, 16:58 |
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On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 06:11:34AM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> I don't think that's a fair example: redden, blacken, *bluen, *greenen.
> Causative -en is lexically restricted and that's all there is to it.
Or maybe color words could only take -en up to the point when green and
yellow were added? I can't help noticing that the three that do take it -
redden, whiten, blacken - are the Primal Three.
No, that's probably not it. But disproof would be welcome.
Amanda