Study of Nominal Predicates in the Lexicon of Visual Perception Cover Image

Étude des prédicats nominaux dans le lexique de la perception visuelle
Study of Nominal Predicates in the Lexicon of Visual Perception

Author(s): Aude Grezka
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Semantics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: visual perception; nominal predicate; actualizer; classe of predicates: polysemy

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I analyse the noun forms derived from the prototypical verbs of visual perception, see and look. The descriptors used to process verbal polysemy must prepare the correspondence between verb classes and noun classes. This involves indicating whether perception verbs have nouns as associated forms. I also show that if the predicates and arguments are fundamental for the interpretation of the sentence, the actualizers are fundamental for its grammaticalization. The actualization will condition the reading of the nominal predicate. I show how this actualization will allow us to elaborate classes of predicates and thus to renew the approaches of polysemy.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 34
  • Page Range: 1-36
  • Page Count: 36
  • Language: French