Phenomenon-Based Perception Verbs in Swedish from a Typological and Contrastive Perspective
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- TASTE taste taste taste SMELL
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Phenomenon-based Sense modality Activity Experience Sensory copulas Percep- tibility verbs Sensory verbs NEUTRAL examine perceive, notice seem “be noticeable” SIGHT look at see look “be visible” shine, shimmer, glimmer, gleam, glitter, glint, glisten, flash… HEARING listen to hear sound “be audible” crack, creak, rattle, crash, sough, surge, buzz… TOUCH feel, touch feel feel tickle, abrade, tingle, sting, burn, smart… TASTE taste taste taste SMELL smell (at), sniff smell smell stink, reek © Presses universitaires de Caen | Téléchargé le 11/03/2023 sur www.cairn.info (IP: 213.230.72.251) — 20 — Åke Viberg Several types of hierarchies have been proposed to account for lex- icalization and associations between meanings within the field. Viberg (1983, 2001) presented a universal sense modality hierarchy for the lexicalization of (canonical) perception verbs (see Figure 1). TOUCH SIGHT HEARING TASTE SMELL Figure 1. The sense modality hierarchy for perception verbs that are Experiences The sense modality hierarchy, which applies primarily to Experi- ences, puts restrictions on lexicalization and on patterns of polysemy. There are languages such as Kobon (a Papua New Guinea language, see Viberg 1983: 150-152) that have one general verb of perception that does not seem to have a prototypical meaning tied to a specific sense modality, but most languages that have been described so far have at least one verb of that type. If a language has only one verb of perception that refers to a specific sense modality, it has SEE as its prototypical meaning. A common type of language has SEE and one more verb that covers the rest of the sense modalities. This verb tends to have HEAR as the prototypical meaning. This meaning is some- times difficult to establish, but as long as it does not have a prototypical meaning referring to another sense than HEARING, the hierarchy is not contradicted (the language only has SEE). If a language has three or more perception verbs tied to a specific modality, it always has SEE and HEAR in addition to TOUCH, TASTE and / or SMELL. There are also more complex patterns, but, in general, verbs high (to the left) in the hierarchy tend to be lexicalized as simple verbs in more languages, tend to be more frequent, and tend to extend their meaning downwards (see Aikhenvald & Storch 2013; Maslova 2004; San Roque et al. 2015; Wälchli 2016 for discussion and critique). Download 1.06 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
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