The event structure of perception verbs /
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,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Oxford linguistics.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 317 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191573620 0191573620 9780199577798 019957779X 9780191722417 0191722413 |