The event structure of perception verbs
By: Nikolas Gisborne
Series: Oxford linguistics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780199577798
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [292]-307) and index.
Table of contents: title: Word grammar; title: Causation and relations between events: an introduction to WG Semantics; title: Network structure and the polysemy of see; title: Perception verbs and the semantics of content; title: Non-finite complementation; title: Sound-class verbs.