par De Brabanter, Philippe ;Sharifzadeh, Saghie
Référence 1th International Workshop on Semantics, Philosophy and Rhetoric (SPR-11)(11: 9-11 November 2011: Donostia, Spain), 11th International Workshop on Semantics, Philosophy and Rhetoric (SPR-11), Book of Abstracts
Publication Publié, 2011
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Résumé : Philosophical semantics has a recent tradition of talking about colour adjectives. Witness the heated debates about whether russet leaves painted green can properly be called ‘green’ in certain contexts (see Travis 1997, Predelli 2005). Those examples are invoked in the debate between contextualists and defenders of more conservative truth-conditional semantics. Philosophical semantics has also shown interest in the combination of adjectives and nouns, mostly one adjective and one noun. To our knowledge, scarcely any attention has been paid to complex combinations involving colour(-related) terms. We say ‘terms’ because we are sometimes unsure whether they are adjectives or nouns. We say ‘colour-related’ because we also want to look at words that are not strictly speaking colour terms, but adjectives like dark, pale, or bright. Our aim in this exploratory paper is to consider what happens when several adjectives or nouns are combined, one of which at least is a colour(-related) term.