出版社：Estonian Literary Museum and Estonian Folklore Institute
摘要：This paper could be named an echo of an echo. Its primary impetus was given by Brent Berlin and Paul Kay"s Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution (Berlin, Kay 1969), a work that today has become a classic that can hardly be ignored when speaking about the relations of colours and language. The following years saw the publication in Estonia of a number of articles dealing with the terms, psychology, and symbolism of colours (Allik 1982, Eelsalu, Stöör 1984, Parmasto 1982, Randlane 1975, Roll 1985, Rätsep 1985, M. and T. Sarv 1979, 1980, Viires 1983, Õim 1983). The weightiest of all these treatments is, no doubt, A. Viires's Eestlaste värvimaailm ('The Estonian's World of Colours') - not so much an exhaustive treatise, but a good example of a perfectly posed question. The Finnish analogue was Mauno Koski's comprehensive monograph Värien nimitykset suomessa ja lähisukukielissä (Koski 1983). Both take Berlin and Kay's theory as their point of departure, and in both cases it is confirmed, with some concession, in the Balto-Finnic languages.
