Quaranta sfumature di grigio, di rosso, di nero: l'organizzazione dei termini di colore in turco tra lessico e morfologia

This work describes the linguistic processes in Turkish morphology to form color terms expressing intensification or diminution. There will be shown four patterns of reduplication, three of which are devoted to express intensification and the fourth works as a sort of attenuation, as it extends the denotation of a word to express “X and the like”. On the level of affixation, this work introduces six different suffixes (-ce, -(i)msi, -(i)mtrak, -rek, -cil,-li ) that, when applied to the adjectives of colours, tone down the colour or diminish it in different ways: approximation, similarity or attenuation, variegation, dispersiveness.