Colour Terminology in Modern Irish

Mark Ó Fionnáin, Ph.D. (2011), the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, is Associate Professor in the Department of Celtic Studies. He has published various articles on the Gaelic languages and related issues of translation.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresGeneral Introduction1 Theoretical Background1.1 Introduction1.2 Pre-modern Research on Colours and Colour Terminology1.3 Modern Research on Basic Colour Terms1.4 Research on Goidelic Basic Colour Terms1.5 Lexicographical Works on the Goidelic Languages from a Diachronic Perspective1.6 Concluding Remarks2 An Analysis of Goidelic Basic Colour Terms on the Basis of Lexicographical and Didactic Material2.1 Introduction2.2 The Basic Colour Terms2.3 Common Celtic Basic Colour Terms2.4 The Historical Period from Old Irish onwards and the Shift in Colour Terminology2.5 Unsaturated and Semantically Specialised Colour Terms2.6 Modern Outside Influences2.7 Concluding Remarks3 An Analysis of Sayings and Placenames3.1 Introduction3.2 Proverbs and Sayings3.3 Placenames3.4 Concluding Remarks4 Fieldwork4.1 Introduction4.2 Fieldwork4.3 Concluding Remarks5 ConclusionsAppendix 1: PicturesAppendix 2: QuestionnaireReferencesIndex