Color terms in Basque

This chapter explores the domain of color terms in Basque from a descriptive, as well as a categorization perspective. The first part provides an overview of the color system in this language: its color lexicalization processes and the meanings these color labels cover. The second part focuses on the results of a categorization study of color in Basque. The data were retrieved from 20 native speakers of Basque and elicited using the color elicitation task as part of the EoSS project at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Majid et al., 2015). The chapter concludes with a discussion on the similarities and differences found in the descriptive and the categorization part.