• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The event structure of perception verbs
  • Contributor: Gisborne, Nikolas [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010
  • Extent: 1 online resource (x, 317 p.); ill
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199577798.001.0001
  • ISBN: 9780191722417; 0191722413
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  • Keywords: Grammar, Comparative and general Verb
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
  • Description: This study examines the semantics and syntactic behaviour of perception verbs such as look, see, taste, hear, feel, sound and listen. It considers their meanings, modality, and irregularity, and examines the kinds of polysemy they exhibit. It offers new insights on lexical causation, evidentiality, and processes of cognition.