- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Preface
- Introduction
1 The Data, Hypothesis, and General Findings
- 1.1 Procedure
- 1.2 Defining the concept of basic color term
- 1.3 Mapping basic color terms
- 1.4 Universality of basic color terms
- 1.5 Inter-language versus inter-informant variability
- 1.6 Category foci versus category boundaries
2 Evolution of Basic Color Terms
- 2.1 Basic color lexicon and technological/cultrural complexity
- 2.2 The seven stages in the evolution of basic color
- 2.3 Some Typical Systems
- 2.3.1 Stage I systems
- 2.3.2 Stage II systems
- 2.3.3 Stage III systems
- 2.3.4 Stage IV systems
- 2.3.5 Stage V systems
- 2.3.6 Stage VI systems
- 2.3.7 Stage VII systems
- 2.4 Internal reconstruction of basic color terms
- 2.5 Problematical cases
3 The Data
- 3.1 Stage I systems
- 3.2 Stage II systems
- 3.3 Stage III systems
- 3.4 Stage IV systems
- 3.5 Stage V systems
- 3.6 Stage VI systems
- 3.7 Stage VII systems
4 Summary of Results and Some Speculation
- Appendix I Terms and mappings for twenty experimentally investigated languages
- Appendix II The growth of color vocabulary: one hundred years of theory
- Appendix III Alphabetical list of languages treated, indicating stage, number of terms, and source
- Appendix IV Standard authorities for the orthographies of cited language
- Notes
- References Cited
- Bibliography of Color Categorization Research
- 19701990 by Luisa Maffi
- Index