Verbs of perception hold a central position among mental verbs. What makes such verbs particularly interesting is their complex patterns of polysemy that both show crosslinguistic regularities and language-specific (or area-specific) characteristics. This paper accounts for the major semantic extensions of the basic verbs of perception in Swedish from a crosslinguistic perspective based primarily on data from two translation corpora. Varying patterns of semantic extensions are found in Swedish and the other languages within the field of perception. There is also a rich variety of extensions into cognition, verbal communication and more distant fields such as possession, social contact and causation. Verbs of perception appear in a wide range of constructions. Brief indications are also given of the interactions between various meanings of the perception verbs and morpho-syntactic devices such as complementation, impersonal constructions, the passive, spatial markers and prefixed forms of verbs.
MacArthur, Fiona, Tina Krennmayr & Jeannette Littlemore
2015. How Basic Is“UNDERSTANDING IS SEEING” When Reasoning About Knowledge? Asymmetric Uses of Sight Metaphors in Office Hours Consultations in English as Academic Lingua Franca. Metaphor and Symbol 30:3 ► pp. 184 ff.
Meulleman, Machteld, Laure Sarda, F. Neveu, S. Prévost, A. Steuckardt, G. Bergounioux & B. Hamma
2022. De l’usage existentiel des verbes de perception. SHS Web of Conferences 138 ► pp. 11002 ff.
Peltola, Rea
2018. Being perceptible: Animacy, existentiality and intersubjectivity in constructions with the Finnish verbkuulua‘to be perceptible (through hearing)’. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 41:1 ► pp. 39 ff.
2020. Phenomenon-Based Perception Verbs in Swedish from a Typological and Contrastive Perspective. Syntaxe & Sémantique N° 20:1 ► pp. 17 ff.
Wu, Shuqiong & Yue Ou
2023.
A quantitative study of the polysemy of Mandarin Chinese perception verb
kàn
‘look/see’
. Australian Journal of Linguistics 43:3 ► pp. 191 ff.
ÖZKAN KURT, Fatma
2022. Türkiye Türkçesinde Koku Alanını İfade Etme Biçimleri: Eylemler. Akademik Dil ve Edebiyat Dergisi 6:4 ► pp. 1416 ff.
ÖZĞÜL, Laçin & Meriç GÜVEN
2021. Esir Şehrin İnsanları romanında vücut-durum duyu fiili içeren cümlelerin bilgi kipliğindeki görünümü. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi :24 ► pp. 571 ff.
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