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The event structure of perception verbs /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gisborne, Nikolas, 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Oxford linguistics.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb.
Verbe (Linguistique)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Word grammar
  • Causation and relations between events : an introduction to WG semantics
  • Network structure and the polysemy of see
  • Perception verbs and the semantics of content
  • Non-finite complementation
  • Sound-class verbs.