English influence on the spoken language — with a special focus on its social, semantic and functional conditioning

Two kinds of pink: development and difference in Germanic colour semantics

“…The Icelandic antipathy to loanwords is well described in the sociolinguistic literature (see e.g. Trudgill, 2011, p. 4;Kristiansen and Sandøy, 2010, p. 3;Svavarsdóttir et al, 2010;Vikør, 2001, p. 216), and the Icelandic colour system is full of internal lexical innovations. 17 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Swedish rosa responses, excluding cerisrosa…”