More than 100 indigenous languages are spoken in Mexico and Central America. Each language partitions the color spectrum according to a pattern that is unique in some way. But every local system of color categories also shares characteristics with the systems of other Mesoamerican languages and of languages elsewhere in the world.
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More than 100 indigenous languages are spoken in Mexico and Central America. Each language partitions the color spectrum according to a pattern that is unique in some way. But every local system of color categories also shares characteristics with the systems of other Mesoamerican languages and of languages elsewhere in the world.
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Very good in Good jacket. The jacket is creased and worn, particularly along the edges with the top and bottom edges of the spine being chipped. The top and bottom edges of the spine are bumped. Binding is tight and inside is clean and unmarked.
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Near Fine jacket. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. More than 100 indigenous languages are spoken in Mexico and Central America. Each language partitions the color spectrum according to a pattern that is unique in some way. But every local system of color categories also shares characteristics with the systems of other Mesoamerican languages and of languages elsewhere in the world. This book presents the results of the Mesoamerican Color Survey, which Robert E. MacLaury conducted in 1978-1981. Drawn from interviews with 900 speakers of some 116 Mesoamerican languages, the book provides a sweeping overview of the organization and semantics of color categorization in modern Mesoamerica. Extensive analysis and MacLaury's use of vantage theory reveal complex and often surprising interrelationships among the ways languages categorize colors. His findings offer valuable cross-cultural data for all students of Mesoamerica. They will also be of interest to all linguists and cognitive scientists working on theories of categorization more generally.
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Fine in very good jacket. Constructing Categories as Vantages. 8vo. xxviii, 616 pp. Bound in full black cloth, title stamped in metallic green on spine. in blue, green and white dust jacket. Illustrated with one fold out color chart and figures throughout. Includes glossary, bibliography and indexes. Fine, crisp, clean copy, in Very Good dust jacket with two short tears and rubbing and creasing to extremities.