Paul Kay

Paul Kay (* 1934 in New York City ) is an American linguist and anthropologist.

Life

He is an emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and, along with Brent Berlin, author of the well-known study of color terms in the languages ​​of the world ( Basic Color Terms).

After its successful completion as B. A. in Economics at Tulane University, Phi Beta Kappa in 1955, took place a year later, his marriage to Patricia Ann Boehm, with he has two children ( born 1961 and 1963 ). Paul Kay graduated in 1958 his military service in the United States Army and attained a doctorate in 1963 in social anthropology from Harvard University. The now following stations and occupations are:

From 1966-69 Paul Kay promoted to associate professor of anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley and at the same 1967 research director at the Language Behavior Research Laboratory, UC Berkeley, he also remains until 1974. Paul Kay now remains professionally Berkeley faithful and teaches from 1970-82 as professor of anthropology and then to 1995 Linguistics at UC

Publications

• With Brent Berlin: Basic Color Terms. Their Universality and Evolution. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA 1969.