Composite colour strings in English: adjectival or nominal?
This paper looks into the category membership of colour words that enter into combination with modifiers like bright, dark, light, or pale. The English grammatical literature usually assumes that these ‘composite colour strings’, used attributively or predicatively, form adjective-adjective compound...
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| Format: | Article | 
| Language: | English | 
| Published: | Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3
    
        2020-06-01 | 
| Series: | Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology | 
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/4366 | 
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