@article{ART002006919},
author={Mija Kim},
title={On the Study of the Interaction between Syntax and Semantics in See Verb Construction in English},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2015},
volume={39},
pages={329-354},
doi={10.21049/ccs.2015.39..329}
TY - JOUR
AU - Mija Kim
TI - On the Study of the Interaction between Syntax and Semantics in See Verb Construction in English
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2015
VL - 39
IS - null
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 329
EP - 354
SN - 1598-0685
AB - The major goals of this paper are to identify the degree into which the meanings of 'see' verb can be extended, focusing on the extended meanings shown in the expressions that denote our instinctive actions for survival, such as eating or drinking, etc., and to clarify the doubt on whether any syntactic pattern can be associated with the meaning in the process of meaning extension of 'see' verb. For doing this task, this paper picked out 2,000 examples randomly from COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English), in which the verb 'see' is used. This paper classified the sentences into thirteen different sentence types, according to the syntactic patterns. This research showed that these thirteen syntactic types lead us to figure out the process of the meaning extension of the verb 'see'.
With this result, this paper made an attempt to provide the four steps toward the meaning extension of verb 'see'. The verb 'see' in the first step denotes the meaning of purely seeing the visualized objects. This verb in the second step expresses the shifted function, under which the agent in the subject position takes the seeing action as a secondary task in order to carry out other main task. The verb in the third step denotes the extended meanings irrelevant to the seeing action, because the sentences on this step do not contain any visualized objects. In the last step this verb functions as conventional implicature whose meaning does not contribute to the whole meaning of a sentence. In addition, this paper identified that the syntactic properties are deeply associated with the process of meaning extension of the verb 'see', and tried to formalize this relationship between the syntax and semantics within the framework of Construction Grammar based on A. Goldberg.
KW - English seeing verb;meaning extension;types;interrelation in syntax and semantics
DO - 10.21049/ccs.2015.39..329
ER -
Mija Kim. (2015). On the Study of the Interaction between Syntax and Semantics in See Verb Construction in English. Cross-Cultural Studies, 39, 329-354.
Mija Kim. 2015, "On the Study of the Interaction between Syntax and Semantics in See Verb Construction in English", Cross-Cultural Studies, vol.39, pp.329-354. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2015.39..329
Mija Kim "On the Study of the Interaction between Syntax and Semantics in See Verb Construction in English" Cross-Cultural Studies 39 pp.329-354 (2015) : 329.
Mija Kim. On the Study of the Interaction between Syntax and Semantics in See Verb Construction in English. 2015; 39 329-354. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2015.39..329
Mija Kim. "On the Study of the Interaction between Syntax and Semantics in See Verb Construction in English" Cross-Cultural Studies 39(2015) : 329-354.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2015.39..329
Mija Kim. On the Study of the Interaction between Syntax and Semantics in See Verb Construction in English. Cross-Cultural Studies, 39, 329-354. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2015.39..329
Mija Kim. On the Study of the Interaction between Syntax and Semantics in See Verb Construction in English. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2015; 39 329-354. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2015.39..329
Mija Kim. On the Study of the Interaction between Syntax and Semantics in See Verb Construction in English. 2015; 39 329-354. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2015.39..329
Mija Kim. "On the Study of the Interaction between Syntax and Semantics in See Verb Construction in English" Cross-Cultural Studies 39(2015) : 329-354.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2015.39..329
