Background
Kay, Paul de Young was born on November 7, 1934 in New York City.
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The work reported in this monograph was begun in the winter of 1967 in a graduate seminar at Berkeley. Many of the basic data were gathered by members of the seminar and the theoretical framework presented here was initially developed in the context of the seminar discussions. Much has been discovered since1969, the date of original publication, regarding the psychophysical and neurophysical determinants of universal, cross-linguistic constraints on the shape of basic color lexicons, and something, albeit less, can now also be said with some confidence regarding the constraining effects of these language-independent processes of color perception and conceptualization on the direction of evolution of basic color term lexicons.
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(Research in linguistic semantics may be roughly divided i...)
Research in linguistic semantics may be roughly divided into two broad traditions. Students concerned with lexical fields and lexical domains ('lexical semanticists') have interested themselves in the paradigmatic relations of contrast that obtain among related lexical items and the substantive detail of how particular lexical items map to the nonlinguistic objects they stand for. 'Formal semanticists' (those who study the combinatorial properties of word meanings) have been mostly unconcerned with these issues, concentrating rather on how the meanings of individual words, whatever their internal structure may be and however they may be paradigmatically related to one another, combine into the meanings of phrases and sentences (and recently, to some extent, texts).
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Kay, Paul de Young was born on November 7, 1934 in New York City.
Bachelor in Economics, Tulane University, 1955; Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, Harvard University, 1963.
Assistant professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1964-1965; assistant professor, professor department anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1966-1983; professor department linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, since 1983; department chairman, University of California, Berkeley, 1986-1991.
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(Research in linguistic semantics may be roughly divided i...)
Member of National Academy of Sciences, American Psychological Society, Society for Linguistic Anthropology (president 1988-1989), American Anthropological Association, Linguistic Society of America.
Son of William de Young and Alice Sarah Kay. Married Patricia Boehm, February 13, 1934. Children: Yvette, Suzanne de Young.