GERMAN COLOUR TERMS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Part 1. Colour linguistics from a German perspective -- 1.0 Introduction -- 1.1 Colour in linguistics: An outline -- 1.1.1 Genetic-evolutionary views -- 1.1.2 Relativism and word-field theory -- 1.1.3 Universalism -- 1.1.4 After universalism -- 1.2 Studies in German colour lexis -- 1.2.1 Structural lexicology, as applied to German colour lexis -- 1.2.2 Psycholinguistic development -- the acquisition and use of German colour terms -- 1.2.3 More recent general and cognitive approaches -- 1.2.4 Colour words in specific domains -- 1.2.5 Contrastive interlingual studies -- 1.2.6 Diachronic studies -- 1.2.7 Lexicographical works -- 1.3 Basis and aim of the present work -- Part 2. Cultural aspects of colour naming and inventorisation in German -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The meaning of colour in the Christian tradition -- 2.3 Colour naming in practical applications -- 2.3.1 Astronomy and astrology -- 2.3.2 The sky and the rainbow -- 2.3.3 The mineral world -- 2.3.4 Medical use of colour differentiation -- 2.3.5 The human body -- 2.3.5.1 General descriptions -- 2.3.5.2 Colour and temperament -- 2.3.5.3 Facial colour as an indicator of emotions and mental states -- 2.3.5.4 Hair and beards -- 2.3.5.5 Pathological conditions -- the colours of death -- 2.3.5.6 Colour and ethnicity -- 2.3.6 Cosmetics -- 2.3.7 Botany and herbalism -- 2.3.8 Zoology -- 2.3.9 The colours of horses and cattle -- 2.3.10 Colour naming and classification in painting -- 2.3.10.1 Artists' colours (medieval and early modern) -- 2.3.10.2 Colorants for artistic and general use (from 1600) -- 2.3.11 Dyes and dyeing -- 2.3.11.1 Traditional dyes -- 2.3.11.2 Medieval and early modern dyers -- 2.3.11.3 Non-traditional dyes and their effects (1650 to 1850).

2.3.11.4 Classification and naming of colours in dyed cloth -- 2.3.11.5 Non-traditional colorants (after 1850) -- 2.3.12 Colour in clothing, costume and fashion -- 2.3.12.1 Medieval and early modern periods -- 2.3.12.2 Journal des Luxus und der Moden -- 2.3.12.3 Colour terms in modern fashion texts -- 2.3.13 Colour in other domains -- 2.3.14 Colour in its wider significance -- 2.3.14.1 Colour allegory and symbolism in the Middle Ages -- 2.3.14.2 Heraldic use of colour -- 2.3.14.3 Post-medieval German colour symbolism -- 2.4 Aspects of colour theory (to 1600) -- 2.4.1 Greek and Latin traditions -- 2.4.2 Middle Ages -- 2.4.3 Renaissance -- 2.5 In search of a system (1600-1700) -- 2.5.1 Justus Georg Schottelius (1612-1676) -- 2.5.2 Athanasius Kircher (1601/2-1680) -- 2.5.3 Georg Philipp Harsdörffer (1607-1658) -- 2.5.4 Johannes Zahn (1641-1707) -- 2.6 Colour sets finite and infinite -- 2.7 Colour classification in the Enlightenment -- 2.7.1 The spectrum and colour names -- 2.7.2 Louis Bertrand Castel (1688-1757) -- 2.7.3 Some musical correspondences -- 2.7.4 Tobias Mayer (1723-1762) -- 2.7.5 Jacob Christian Schäffer (1718-1790) -- 2.7.6 Ignaz Schiffermüller (1727-1809) -- 2.7.7 Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777) -- 2.7.8 August Ludewig Pfannenschmid -- 2.7.9 Christian Friedrich Prange (1756-1836) -- 2.7.10 Johann Karl Gottfried Jacobsson (1725-1789) -- 2.7.11 Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817) -- 2.8 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) -- 2.8.1 Goethe and colour structures -- 2.8.2 Goethe and colour nomenclatures -- 2.8.3 Goethe and colour lexis: Conclusions -- 2.9 Other colour structures (1800-1900) -- 2.10 Lexicalised colour structures (since 1900) -- 2.11 Concluding remarks -- Part 3. Linguistic aspects of German colour lexis -- 3.1 Linguistic classification of colour lexis -- 3.2 Towards a diachronic view.

3.2.1 Semantic interpretation of historical data -- 3.2.2 Colour words in Proto-Indo-European -- 3.2.3 Colour words in Proto-Germanic -- 3.2.4 Old High German (ca. 750-1050) -- 3.2.5 Middle High German (1050-1350) -- 3.2.6 Early New High German (1350-1650) -- 3.2.7 Excursus: comparison with Middle English -- 3.2.8 New High German (from 1650 onwards) -- 3.3 Semantic and pragmatic aspects -- 3.3.1 Prototypes, referents and other object comparisons -- 3.3.2 Descriptive devices (transitions, gradations, hedging strategies) -- 3.3.3 Referential and contextual restriction -- 3.3.4 Connotations -- 3.3.5 Colour descriptors -- 3.3.6 Transferred use -- 3.3.7 Further observations -- 3.4 Morphological aspects -- 3.4.1 Metonymic conversions -- 3.4.2 Univerbation and hyphenation -- 3.4.3 Classification of adjectival compounds -- 3.4.4 Additive formations -- 3.4.5 Causal, temporal and local formations -- 3.4.6 Comparative formations -- 3.4.7 Cumulative and intensifying formations -- 3.4.8 Modificative formations -- 3.4.9 Determinative precedence in compounds -- 3.4.10 Exocentric compounds -- 3.5 Derivation -- 3.5.1 Prefixes and prefixoids -- 3.5.2 Suffixes and suffixoids -- 3.5.2.1 -(e)n -- 3.5.2.2 -farb, ‑farbe, ‑farben, ‑farbig, ‑färbig -- 3.5.2.3 -haft(ig) -- 3.5.2.4 -ig, ‑icht, ‑igt (etc.) -- 3.5.2.5 -isch -- 3.5.2.6 -lich -- 3.5.2.7 Occasional formants -- 3.5.3 Abstract substantival formation -- use of plural forms -- 3.5.4 Adjectival inflection in words of foreign origin -- 3.6 Noun compounds -- 3.7 Verbs and participles -- 3.7.1 Theoretical preliminaries -- 3.7.2 Verbal vs. adjectival exponence of colour -- 3.7.3 Colour verbs in Proto-Germanic -- 3.7.4 Old High German colour verbs -- 3.7.5 Middle High German and Early New High German colour verbs -- 3.7.6 Special cases: färben, bleichen, grünen -- 3.7.7 Adverbial use of colour adjectives.

3.7.8 Verbal prefixation -- 3.7.8.1 Prefix verbs in Old High German -- 3.7.8.2 Prefix verbs from Middle High German onwards -- 3.7.9 Verbal suffixation -- 3.7.10 Compound verbs denoting light phenomena -- 3.7.11 Participial formations -- 3.8 Towards an integrated view of morphological developments -- 3.8.1 The terms orange and violett -- 3.8.2 Morphological devices in individual texts -- 3.8.3 Case study in morphological productivity: Quirinus Kuhlmann -- 3.9 The registration of colour lexis in dictionaries -- 3.9.1 Early alphabetical lexica -- 3.9.2 Early classified lexica -- 3.9.3 General dictionaries from 1600 onwards -- 3.9.3.1 Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Deutsches Wörterbuch -- 3.9.3.2 Daniel Sanders, Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (1860-5) -- 3.9.3.3 Daniel Sanders, Deutscher Sprachschatz (1873-7) -- 3.9.3.4 Later classified lexica -- 3.9.3.5 Colour lexicography since 1900 -- 3.10 Summary and conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography: Primary sources -- Bibliography: Secondary sources -- Appendix A: Colour lists in early classified lexica -- Appendix B: Extract from Christoph Arnold Kunst-spiegel (1649) -- Appendix C: Abraham Werner Verzeichnis des Mineralien-Kabinets (1791-2) -- Appendix D: Selected lists of artists' colours -- Index.