Paul Kay
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 79214 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Paul Kay |
| NOMBRES | Paul |
| APELLIDO | Kay |
| FIRMA | KAY P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6279-8263 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 731 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1963 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
The top 100 global water questions
Global water security presents a complex problem for human societies and will become more acute as the impacts of climate change escalate. Water security connects the practical water and sanitation challenges of households to the dynamics of global hydroclimates and ecosystems in the Anthropocene. To ensure the successful deployment of attention and resources, it is necessary to identify the most pressing questions for water research. Here, we pr…
Can we learn from the past? Towards better analogies and historical inference in society-environmental change research
Lessons from the English auxiliary system
The English auxiliary system exhibits many lexical exceptions and subregularities, and considerable dialectal variation, all of which are frequently omitted from generative analyses and discussions. This paper presents a detailed, movement-free account of the English Auxiliary System within Sign-Based Construction Grammar (Sag 2010, Michaelis 2011, Boas & Sag 2012) that utilizes techniques of lexicalist and construction-based analysis. The result…
Candoshi Color Terms
Alexandre Surrallés [S] (2016) claims that the language isolate Candoshi of Amazonian Peru contains no names for colors, contrary to what has been reported for the World Color Survey [WCS] (Kay et al. , Kay et al. , among others, and by Tuggy 2008). S's arguments are not persuasive and there is evidence independent of the WCS that the Candoshi language does indeed contain color terms. Moreover, we will see that the Candoshi color terms, when view…
Color Terms, Linguistics of
Unary phrase structure rules and the Cognitive Linguistics Lexical Linking theory
My comments will be restricted to the bearing of Müller and Wechsler’s (M&W’s) paper on the issue of argument structure within constructional approaches to grammar. In particular these comments will compare the unary phrase structure approach advocated by M&W to the influential approach of Adele Goldberg (1995). The latter approach has been widely accepted in the majority fraction of the
Linguistic Competence and Folk Theories of Language
Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1983), pp. 128-137
Charles J. Fillmore
Charles J. Fillmore Farrell Ackerman, Paul Kay, and Mary Catherine O’Connor Charles J. (Chuck) Fillmore, 67th president of the Linguistic Society of America, died on February 13, 2014, at his home in San Francisco, California. Fillmore was one of the world’s preeminent linguists. His career spanned more than half a century, during which he contributed a reliably constant stream of original and influential ideas in many areas of linguistic researc…
Arsenic pollution
Language, thought, and color
Color naming and the shape of color space
Color naming in the world's languages has traditionally been viewed as reflecting either a universal set of focal colors, or linguistic relativity. Recently, a different view has gained support: color naming may be accounted for in terms of the overall shape of perceptual color space. Here, we show that the new shape-based perspective can clarify which languages have color-naming systems that deviate from what universal forces would predict. Spec…
Color naming reflects optimal partitions of color space
The nature of color categories in the world's languages is contested. One major view holds that color categories are organized around universal focal colors, whereas an opposing view holds instead that categories are defined at their boundaries by linguistic convention. Both of these standardly opposed views are challenged by existing data. Here, we argue for a third view based on a proposal by Jameson and D'Andrade [Jameson KA, D'Andrade RG (199…
Man the Hunter? Hunting, Ecology, and Gender in Judaism
This paper asks whether religious tradition can offer alternative models to ‘man the hunter,’ and what such models might imply for environmental sensibility. We examine these questions specifically in the context of Judaism. Biblical, Talmudic, and rabbinic texts are reviewed and are found to belie the common belief that Judaism forbids hunting. Hunting was permitted under some circumstances and biblical sources indicate its occurrence in patriar…
Color Categories Are Not Arbitrary
Recent, well-controlled studies in cross-language color naming and cross-language tests of color memory and learning have made important contributions to our understanding of which aspects of cross-language color naming and nonverbal response to colors may and may not be attributed to pan-human properties of color appearance. Valuable as these results are, some studies have led to more relativistic conclusions than their results justify. In parti…
NSM and the meaning of color words
Uwe Durst (D) is to be commended for a clear exposition of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) theory of Anna Wierzbicka (W) and her associates. In addition to laying out clearly the assumptions of the NSM theory, D states that The ...NSM model... has turned out to be a most useful theoretical and methodological framework for semantic analysis in various linguistic... domains
Trying on the Emperor's New Clothes? Concertación, Corporatism and Neoliberal Restructuring in the Semiperiphery
La recherche interlinguistique sur les noms de couleur
La recherche interlinguistique sur les noms de couleur Quelques considérations méthodologiques Les nombreux travaux, issus de l'étude interlinguistique sur les termes de couleur de Berlin et Kay (1969), dont les plus récents exemples sont Kay et al. (1997) et Kay et Maftï (sous presse), ont été critiqués pour les raisons suivantes: (1) plusieurs langues contiennent des mots qui expriment à la fois des propriétés de couleur et des propriétés de no…
English Subjectless Tagged Sentences
A colloquial English sentence like Fooled us, didn't they? contains a finite main verb but no expressed subject. The identity of the missing subject of fooled is recovered from the tag subject they: compare Fooled us, didn't she?, Fooled us, didn't you? This article argues (1) that such subjectless tagged sentences (STSs) pose a problem for grammatical approaches based on movement and empty categories and (2) that STSs receive a revealing analysi…
Grammatical Constructions and Linguistic Generalizations
Our goal is to present, by means of the detailed analysis of a single grammatical problem, some of the principal commitments and mechanisms of a grammatical theory that assigns a central role to the notion of GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTION . To adopt a constructional approach is to undertake a commitment in principle to account for the entirety of each language. This means that the relatively general patterns of the language, such as the one licensing …
Color
Color Appearance and the Emergence and Evolution of Basic Color Lexicons
Various revisions of the Berlin and Kay (1969) model of the evolution of basic color term systems have been produced in the last thirty years, motivated by both empirical and theoretical considerations. On the empirical side, new facts about color naming systems have continually come to light, which have demanded adjustments in lhe descriptive model. On the theoretical side, lhere has been a sustained effort to find motivation in the vision scien…
Words and the Grammar of Context
An early nineteenth century meteorological register from the eastern Canadian Arctic
Significant warming in the Arctic is anticipated for doubled-CO 2 scenarios, but temperatures in the eastern Canadian Arctic have not yet exhibited that trend in the last few decades. The spatial juxtaposition of the winter station in 1822–1823 of William Edward Parry's Northwest Passage expedition with the modern Igloolik Research Centre of the Science Institute of the Northwest Territories affords an opportunity for historical reconstruction an…
Anaphoric Binding in Construction Grammar
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session Dedicated to the Contributions of Charles J. Fillmore (1994)
Biocultural Implications of Systems of Color Naming
Preliminary analysis of color naming data from 111 languages in the World Color Survey confirms the main lines of the original Berlin and Kay hypothesis regarding the existence of semantic universals in basic color lexicons. The analysis further shows that visual physiology plays a role in the evolutionary development of basic color vocabularies, constraining the possible composite categories to a small number of those theoretically possible. One…
Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical Constructions
Through the detailed investigation of the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of one grammatical construction, that containing the conjunction let alone , we explore the view that the realm of idiomaticity in a language includes a great deal that is productive, highly structured, and worthy of serious grammatical investigation. It is suggested that an explanatory model of grammar will include principles whereby a language can associate semantic and…
The Linguistic Significance of the Meanings of Basic Color Terms
There are semantic universals in the domain of color; i.e. there are constraints on the types of possible basic color lexicons. These constraints arise from the structure and function of the visual system. Thus in the case of color at least, rather than language determining perception (cf. Sapir and Whorf), it is perception that determines language. In deriving the semantic universals from properties of the visual system, one must employ a contin…
What Is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
The history of empirical research on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is reviewed. A more sensitive test of the hypothesis is devised and a clear Whorfian effect is detected in the domain of color. A specific mechanism is proposed to account for this effect and a second experiment, designed to block the hypothesized mechanism, is performed. The effect disappears as predicted. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is reevaluated in the light of these results
Prototype Semantics
The meaning of the word lie (‘prevaricate‘) consists in a cognitive prototype to which various real or imagined events may correspond in varying degrees. This view contrasts with the familiar one in which word meanings consist of sets of necessary and sufficient conditions, and distinguish discretely between instances and non-instances. The relevance of the notions of prototype and gradience in semantics has previously been established in physica…
Biocultural Implications of Systems of Color Naming
Preliminary analysis of color naming data from 111 languages in the World Color Survey confirms the main lines of the original Berlin and Kay hypothesis regarding the existence of semantic universals in basic color lexicons. The analysis further shows that visual physiology plays a role in the evolutionary development of basic color vocabularies, constraining the possible composite categories to a small number of those theoretically possible. One…
Grammatical Constructions and Linguistic Generalizations
Our goal is to present, by means of the detailed analysis of a single grammatical problem, some of the principal commitments and mechanisms of a grammatical theory that assigns a central role to the notion of GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTION . To adopt a constructional approach is to undertake a commitment in principle to account for the entirety of each language. This means that the relatively general patterns of the language, such as the one licensing …
Color Appearance and the Emergence and Evolution of Basic Color Lexicons
Various revisions of the Berlin and Kay (1969) model of the evolution of basic color term systems have been produced in the last thirty years, motivated by both empirical and theoretical considerations. On the empirical side, new facts about color naming systems have continually come to light, which have demanded adjustments in lhe descriptive model. On the theoretical side, lhere has been a sustained effort to find motivation in the vision scien…
Synchronic variability and diachronic change in basic color terms
The main purpose of this paper is to relate recent findings regarding the evolution of basic color term systems to current research in linguistic variation and language change. More specifically it is to provide in the area of lexical semantics a demonstration of the hypothesis that all linguistic change has its roots in synchronic heterogeneity of the speech community (cf. Weinreich, Labov & Herzog (1968: 188) for a general statement of this pos…
Semantic Fields and Lexical Structure
Buku ini merupakan kajian tentang makna-makna leksikal dan hubungannya dengan makna struktur. Bagian yang dikaji adalah termasuk analisis komponensial, kontradiksi, semantik universal, serta juga grammar dan leksikon
Taxonomy and Semantic Contrast
The notions ‘taxonomy’ and ‘semantic contrast’ have played an important role in ethnographic semantics, but they are not so simple as is sometimes supposed. In particular, ‘level of contrast’ is an ill-defined and misleading term. When one formulates the notion ‘taxonomy’ in a precise way, as is done here, light is shed on several questions of lexical semantics involving the notion of semantic contrast. For example, several different types of sem…
Ethnographic Semantics
Ethnographic semantics is the description of semantic characteristics that are culturally revealing. In anthropology it has come to include a number of different types of analysis which have so far been used mostly in studies of kinship and folk science. These are contrast-level mapping, componential analysis, programmed specification, and various uses of semantic rules, notably reduction analysis. Contrast-level study is the mapping of native wo…
On the logic of variable rules
In the introduction we stated two frequently encountered a priori arguments against the variable rule methodology and attempted to refute them. The first rejects the variable rule methodology – and by implication any study of comparable data – on the grounds that variable rules govern token frequencies while generative grammar does not countenance token frequencies. We agree that variable rules are not generative rules of a new sort but an entire…
Basic Color Terms
A model-theoretic approach to folk taxonomy
Tahitian Fosterage and the Form of Ethnographic Models1
The Purum Case
Can we learn from the past? Towards better analogies and historical inference in society-environmental change research
A Generalization of the Cross/Parallel Distinction1
Re-evaluation of Pollen-Climate Transfer Functions in Keewatin, Northern Canada
Multivariate statistical analyses allow specification of pollen-climate transfer functions useful in studies of paleoclimate. Two previously published models, when applied to two documented sites in Canada's District of Keewatin, produce inconsistent reconstructions of mean July temperatures for the mid- to late-Holocene (approximately the past 5,000 years). The discrepancy between the results arises from differences in the construction of the fu…
The Myth of Nonacademic Employment
A Guttman Scale Model of Tahitian Consumer Behavior
Candoshi Color Terms
Alexandre Surrallés [S] (2016) claims that the language isolate Candoshi of Amazonian Peru contains no names for colors, contrary to what has been reported for the World Color Survey [WCS] (Kay et al. , Kay et al. , among others, and by Tuggy 2008). S's arguments are not persuasive and there is evidence independent of the WCS that the Candoshi language does indeed contain color terms. Moreover, we will see that the Candoshi color terms, when view…
Trying on the Emperor's New Clothes? Concertación, Corporatism and Neoliberal Restructuring in the Semiperiphery
English Subjectless Tagged Sentences
A colloquial English sentence like Fooled us, didn't they? contains a finite main verb but no expressed subject. The identity of the missing subject of fooled is recovered from the tag subject they: compare Fooled us, didn't she?, Fooled us, didn't you? This article argues (1) that such subjectless tagged sentences (STSs) pose a problem for grammatical approaches based on movement and empty categories and (2) that STSs receive a revealing analysi…
The tenure review process
This paper examines the tenure review process faced by geographers in American universities from the perspectives of successful and unsuccessful candidates, a department chair, and a member of a tenure review committee. It aims to assist candidates for tenure by commenting on both formal and informal aspects of the process
Tahitian Fosterage and the Form of Ethnographic Models1
The Purum Case
A Guttman Scale Model of Tahitian Consumer Behavior
Ethnology
A Generalization of the Cross/Parallel Distinction1
Ethnographic Semantics
Ethnographic semantics is the description of semantic characteristics that are culturally revealing. In anthropology it has come to include a number of different types of analysis which have so far been used mostly in studies of kinship and folk science. These are contrast-level mapping, componential analysis, programmed specification, and various uses of semantic rules, notably reduction analysis. Contrast-level study is the mapping of native wo…
On the Multiplicity of Cross/Parallel Distinctions
Correctional Notes on Cross/Parallel
Taxonomy and Semantic Contrast
The notions ‘taxonomy’ and ‘semantic contrast’ have played an important role in ethnographic semantics, but they are not so simple as is sometimes supposed. In particular, ‘level of contrast’ is an ill-defined and misleading term. When one formulates the notion ‘taxonomy’ in a precise way, as is done here, light is shed on several questions of lexical semantics involving the notion of semantic contrast. For example, several different types of sem…
Basic Color Terms
Preface Introduction 1. The data, hypothesis, and general findings 2. Evolution of basic color terms 3. The data 4. Summary of results and some speculations Appendix I Appendix II Appendix III Appendix IV Notes References Cited Bibliography Index
Explorations in Mathematical Anthropology
Basic Color Terms
Synchronic variability and diachronic change in basic color terms
The main purpose of this paper is to relate recent findings regarding the evolution of basic color term systems to current research in linguistic variation and language change. More specifically it is to provide in the area of lexical semantics a demonstration of the hypothesis that all linguistic change has its roots in synchronic heterogeneity of the speech community (cf. Weinreich, Labov & Herzog (1968: 188) for a general statement of this pos…
A model-theoretic approach to folk taxonomy
The Myth of Nonacademic Employment
Semantic Fields and Lexical Structure
Buku ini merupakan kajian tentang makna-makna leksikal dan hubungannya dengan makna struktur. Bagian yang dikaji adalah termasuk analisis komponensial, kontradiksi, semantik universal, serta juga grammar dan leksikon
From Graduate Study To Selling Shoes
The Linguistic Significance of the Meanings of Basic Color Terms
There are semantic universals in the domain of color; i.e. there are constraints on the types of possible basic color lexicons. These constraints arise from the structure and function of the visual system. Thus in the case of color at least, rather than language determining perception (cf. Sapir and Whorf), it is perception that determines language. In deriving the semantic universals from properties of the visual system, one must employ a contin…
Multivariate Statistical Estimates of Holocene Vegetation and Climate Change, Forest-Tundra Transition Zone, NWT, Canada
Newly derived fossil pollen data were obtained from four sites along a transect from the boreal forest limit into tundra in the eastern Northwest Territories. Multivariate statistical analyses were employed to interpret the pollen assemblages. Transfer functions were constructed between the pollen data and climatic data, and paleoclimatic estimates were derived. The objective nature of the reconstructions provides an independent verification of t…
On the logic of variable rules
In the introduction we stated two frequently encountered a priori arguments against the variable rule methodology and attempted to refute them. The first rejects the variable rule methodology – and by implication any study of comparable data – on the grounds that variable rules govern token frequencies while generative grammar does not countenance token frequencies. We agree that variable rules are not generative rules of a new sort but an entire…
Ethnology
On the meaning of variable rules
A recent issue of this journal carried an analysis of the theoretical status of variable rules by the present authors (Kay & McDaniel 1979) together with a response by D. Sankoff and W. Labov (1979). The central issue with which Kay and McDaniel dealt was the following: which (if any) of the mathematical assumptions embodied in variable rules may reasonably be attributed to the linguistic abilities of speakers? The Sankoff and Labov response has …
Prototype Semantics
The meaning of the word lie (‘prevaricate‘) consists in a cognitive prototype to which various real or imagined events may correspond in varying degrees. This view contrasts with the familiar one in which word meanings consist of sets of necessary and sufficient conditions, and distinguish discretely between instances and non-instances. The relevance of the notions of prototype and gradience in semantics has previously been established in physica…
Re-evaluation of Pollen-Climate Transfer Functions in Keewatin, Northern Canada
Multivariate statistical analyses allow specification of pollen-climate transfer functions useful in studies of paleoclimate. Two previously published models, when applied to two documented sites in Canada's District of Keewatin, produce inconsistent reconstructions of mean July temperatures for the mid- to late-Holocene (approximately the past 5,000 years). The discrepancy between the results arises from differences in the construction of the fu…
The Kind Of/Sort Of Construction
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 157-171
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