OHTSUKI Minoru   Faculty of Foreign Languages Department of English Language   Professor

■ Title   Markedness and oscillation in the evolution of colour terms: with special reference to their historical development in Japanese

■ Outline   Analysis of the historical development of colour terms in Japanese, based on the orders of their appearance as well as their usage, reveals that (a) marked colour terms either appear earlier or more developed than their unmarked counterparts, and that (b) historical development of colour terms involves oscillations between opposite or complementary properties.   Single   Discourses on Colour   Jan Kochanowski University   pp.9   2018/12

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