Constructing Parallel Multidimensional Chromatic Lexicons for Corpus-Assisted Analysis of Russian and English Texts
This article addresses the relative scarcity of research tools for the corpus-assisted linguistic analysis of colour terms in literary texts. It describes the development of two multidimensional chromatic lexicons: one for Russian (224 entries) and one for English (141 entries). Lexicon construction involved sourcing colour vocabulary from specialised resources and research literature, comparing the two language inventories, manually checking translated candidates, and addressing language-specific morphological features. In addition to identifying colour terms and visual descriptors, the lexicons classify entries according to hue, saturation, and temperature. To demonstrate their practica...
| Authors | Larisa Nikitina |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 3 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 3 August 2026 |
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