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The Event Structure of Perception Verbs (Hardcover)
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The Event Structure of Perception Verbs (Hardcover)
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This book makes an original contribution to the understanding of
perception verbs and the treatment of argument structure, and
offers new insights on lexical causation, evidentiality, and
processes of cognition. Perception verbs - such as look, see,
taste, hear, feel, sound, and listen - present unresolved problems
for theories of lexical semantics. This book examines the relations
between their semantics and syntactic behaviour, the different
kinds of polysemy they exhibit, and the role of evidentiality in
verbs like seem and sound. In unravelling their complexity Nikolas
Gisborne looks closely at their meanings, modality, semantic
relatedness, and irregularity. He frames his exposition in Word
Grammar, and draws extensively on work in cognitive linguistics and
construction grammar.
After an opening chapter explaining the nature of the issues, Dr
Gisborne presents a concise introduction to Word Grammar. He then
considers the implications of his approach for a general theory of
event structure. He looks at how the framework may be applied to
causation, argument linking, and the modelling of polysemy. He
examines the semantic similarities and differences between listen-
and hear-class verbs, and analyses the cognate patterns of
sound-class verbs. He concludes by drawing together his findings
and exploring their implications for linguistic theory.
Clearly and readably written, with each point of the argument
illustrated with well-chosen examples, this book will appeal to
linguists of all theoretical persuasions at graduate level and
above.
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