Paul Kay
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Paul Kay is an emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He joined the University in 1966 as a member of the Department of Anthropology, transferring to the Department of Linguistics in 1982. He is best known for his work with anthropologist Brent Berlin on colour: Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution (1969) ISBN 1-57586-162-3. More recently, he has worked in the area of construction grammar with Charles J. Fillmore, authoring the textbook Construction Grammar (1996 manuscript).