Paul Kay

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Paul Kay is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, University of Chicago, Harvard University

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Communications

#170

World Rank

#327

Historical Rank

#92

USA Rank

Linguistics

#68

World Rank

#90

Historical Rank

#42

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Bachelors Linguistics University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Paul Kay is an emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, United States. He joined the University in 1966 as a member of the Department of Anthropology, transferring to the Department of Linguistics in 1982 and now working at the International Computer Science Institute . He is best known for his work with anthropologist Brent Berlin on colour: Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution . More recently, he has worked in the area of Construction Grammar with Charles J. Fillmore, authoring the textbook Construction Grammar . He is currently working on an extension of Construction Grammar called Sign-Based Construction Grammar, authoring a book on this topic with Charles J. Fillmore, Ivan Sag and Laura Michaelis.

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Paul Kay's Published Works

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Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution (1973) (3086)
Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical Constructions: The Case of Let Alone (1988) (1717)
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis? (1983) (952)
Grammatical constructions and linguistic generalizations: The What's X doing Y? construction (1999) (839)
The linguistic significance of the meanings of basic color terms (1978) (794)
Whorf hypothesis is supported in the right visual field but not the left. (2006) (428)
Color naming reflects optimal partitions of color space (2007) (356)
Prototype semantics: The English Word Lie (1981) (331)
Resolving the question of color naming universals (2003) (295)
Language, thought, and color: Whorf was half right (2009) (287)
Color appearance and the emergence and evolution of basic color lexicons (1999) (257)
Focal colors are universal after all. (2005) (248)
Biocultural Implications of Systems of Color Naming (1991) (204)
Categorical perception of color is lateralized to the right hemisphere in infants, but to the left hemisphere in adults (2008) (203)
Further evidence that Whorfian effects are stronger in the right visual field than the left (2007) (176)
Synchronic variability and diachronic change in basic color terms (1975) (165)
The World Color Survey (2011) (161)
Language, thought and color: recent developments (2006) (155)
Language affects patterns of brain activation associated with perceptual decision (2008) (144)
Language regions of brain are operative in color perception (2009) (131)
Taxonomy and Semantic Contrast (1971) (128)
Lateralization of categorical perception of color changes with color term acquisition (2008) (126)
Color categories in thought and language: Color naming across languages (1997) (121)
Support for lateralization of the Whorf effect beyond the realm of color discrimination (2008) (113)
Words and the grammar of context (1997) (112)
Word Meanings across Languages Support Efficient Communication (2015) (111)
An Informal Sketch of a Formal Architecture for Construction Grammar (2002) (100)
Electrophysiological evidence for the left-lateralized effect of language on preattentive categorical perception of color (2011) (97)
Learning new color names produces rapid increase in gray matter in the intact adult human cortex (2011) (94)
Variations in normal color vision. IV. Binary hues and hue scaling. (2005) (87)
Language Evolution and Speech Style (1977) (84)
Color naming universals: The case of Berinmo (2007) (80)
Newly trained lexical categories produce lateralized categorical perception of color (2010) (73)
On the logic of variable rules (1979) (70)
3. Argument structure constructions and the argument-adjunct distinction (2005) (70)
English Subjectless Tagged Sentences (2002) (67)
Color Categories Are Not Arbitrary (2002) (60)
The Limits of (Construction) Grammar (2013) (52)
Color categories and color appearance (2012) (52)
Individual and population differences in focal colors (2007) (50)
Chapter 9 – THE WORLD COLOR SURVEY DATABASE (2005) (50)
Pragmatic Aspects of Grammatical Constructions (2008) (46)
Introducing Sign-Based Construction Grammar (2012) (46)
Constructional Meaning and Compositionality (2009) (45)
Linguistic Competence and Folk Theories of Language: Two English Hedges (1983) (44)
Regularity and idiomicity in grammatical constructions: The case of (1988) (43)
Color Naming, Lens Aging, and Grue (2005) (41)
Color naming and the shape of color space (2010) (40)
Perceiving the average hue of color arrays. (2014) (37)
Three properties of the ideal reader (1983) (35)
Science ≠ imperialism: There are nontrivial constraints on color naming (1997) (33)
Contextual Operators: Respective, Respectively and Vice Versa (1989) (31)
86. Constructional meaning and compositionality (2012) (30)
A model-theoretic approach to folk taxonomy (1975) (28)
The inheritance of presuppositions (1992) (28)
1 Language and thought : Which side are you on , anyway ? (2008) (27)
Cleaning up the Big Mess: Discontinuous Dependencies and Complex Determiners (2012) (25)
The Kind Of/Sort Of Construction (1984) (25)
What the Optics of the Aging Eye Can Teach Us About Color Language (2005) (24)
Color Naming and Sunlight (2004) (22)
Universal Foci and Varying Boundaries in Linguistic Color Categories (2005) (19)
Lateralized Whorf : Language influences perceptual decision in the right visual field (2007) (18)
Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution. The David Hume Series of Philosophy and Cognitive Science Reissues. (1999) (18)
Lessons from the English auxiliary system (2019) (14)
variations in color naming within and across populations (2005) (14)
Anaphoric Binding in Construction Grammar (1994) (14)
Universality of color categorization (2015) (13)
NSM and the meaning of color words (2004) (12)
Language, Culture, and Society: Methodological issues in cross-language color naming (2006) (11)
Some Theoretical Implications of Ethnographic Semantics. Working Paper of the Language Behavior Research Laboratory, No. 24. (1969) (11)
Individual differences in unique and binary hues (2002) (9)
On the meaning of variable rules: Discussion (1981) (8)
Tahitian Words for Race and Class (1978) (8)
THE MYTH OF NONACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT: OBSERVATIONS ON THE GROWTH OF AN IDEOLOGY (1977) (7)
How hard a problem would this be to solve? (2009) (7)
Cultural models in language and thought: Linguistic competence and folk theories of language (1987) (7)
Comprehension deficits of Broca's aphasics provide no evidence for traces (2000) (6)
Linguistics 120 : construction grammar coursebook, chapters 1-11 (1994) (6)
Further evidence of Whorfian effects to the right visual field (2007) (6)
Color categories and perceptual grouping (2010) (6)
Asymmetries in the distribution of composite and derived basic color categories (1999) (5)
Color Categories as Fuzzy Sets. Working Papers of the Language Behavior Research Laboratory. No. 44. (1975) (4)
Partial inversion in English (2017) (4)
Candoshi Color Terms (2018) (4)
Text Semantic Analysis of Reading Comprehension Tests. Final Report. (1983) (4)
Semantic fields and lexical structure (review) (1977) (3)
Comparison of two methods of hue scaling. (2019) (3)
Unary phrase structure rules and the Cognitive Linguistics Lexical Linking theory (2014) (3)
From Graduate Study To Selling Shoes (1978) (3)
Constants and Variables of English Kinship Semantics. Working Papers of the Language Behavior Research Laboratory, No. 45. (1974) (2)
Semantics and Pragmtics of Locative Expressions (2004) (2)
Color Naming, Lens Aging, and Grue the Optics of the Aging Eye Can Teach Us About Color (2005) (2)
Some Methodological Considerations Regarding Cross-Language Research on Color Naming 1 . (1999) (1)
Compositionality, Of, Word-formation (1)
Variation in focal color choices across languages of the world color survey (2010) (1)
Correctional Notes on Cross/Parallel (1968) (1)
How Constructions Mean (2015) (1)
Numbering by color: the perception of summary statistics in color distributions (2013) (1)
Sunlight exposure cannot explain “grue” languages (2023) (1)
Color Naming is Near Optimal (2007) (1)
Color naming and lens brunescence (2004) (1)
In Defense of Color Categories in Thought and Language (Hardin and Maffi, eds.): A Response to B. A. C. Saunders's Review (2000) (1)
DISCUSSION OF THE TWO PRECEDING PAPERS (1976) (0)
Color Terms, Linguistics of (2001) (0)
On Simple Semantic Spaces and Semantic Categories. Working Papers of the Language Behavior Research Laboratory, No. 2. (1967) (0)
Learning new lexical categories induced changes in gray matter in adult human brain (2012) (0)
On Taxonomy and Semantic Contrast. Working Papers of the Language Behavior Research Laboratory, No. 31. (1970) (0)
EFFICIENT COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE EVOLUTION (2014) (0)
Ethnology: Gossip, Reputation and Knowledge in Zinacantan. John Beard Haviland. (1979) (0)
688 ACKNOWLEDGMENT Iwanska, Lucia Johnson, Mark Kadmon, Nirit K~ ilm~ n, L~ zlo (1995) (0)
Effects of language on categorical perception of color are modulated by the visual hemifield as revealed by fMRI (2009) (0)
Individual differences in color categories (2010) (0)
Cover Sheet Individual and Population Differences in Focal Colors Contributor ( 1 ) (2004) (0)
A new angle on hue scaling (2019) (0)
1 Introducing Sign-Based Construction Grammar (2012) (0)
Unrealized arguments in SBCG (2020) (0)
On the status of prelinguistic color categories: Response to Roberson and Hanley (2009) (0)
Some facts of Seneca kinship semantics (2010) (0)
Author ' s personal copy Color categories and color appearance (1997) (0)
Acknowledgment of Guest Reviewers (2004) (0)
1 Partial Inversion in English (2016) (0)
Tahitian Words for Race and Class. Working Papers of the Language Behavior Research Laboratory, No. 40. (1975) (0)
Dynamics of Syntax and Semantics of Words and Phrases: An Interpretation of the Construction Grammar Approach (2004) (0)
Individual differences in hue scaling (2010) (0)
Science ≠ imperialism: There are nontrivial constraints on color naming (1997) (0)
Copy raising as a lexical rule (2021) (0)
PROPOSAL FOR A CENTER FOR LANGUAGE BEHAVIOR RESEARCH. (1967) (0)
Languages reflect near-optimal semantic categories (2009) (0)
Color naming in Slavic languages and beyond : a diachronic perspective (2020) (0)

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