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Syntactic-Semantic Analysis of Perception Verbs in the Croatian Language

Perception verbs express the internal ways and processes with which we perceive the world around us but also gather information from our surroundings. Their main feature is that they are ambiguous: they have their prototypical, physical meanings and non-prototypical, extended physical and metaphorical meanings. There are several studies of perceptive verbs for the Croatian language (Burić 2021 ; Mihaljević 2009, 2011 ; RaVaelli 2017), but none of them is corpus-based research that considers a larger number of verb lemmas that express perception verbs. This research presents a corpus approach to verbs of perception for the Croatian language, which analyses them at the syntactic and semantic level with the help of NooJ. The semantic analysis shows the distribution of verbs by specialized corpora and by the meaning of perception verbs. This analysis rests on the assumption that the distribution of prototypical physical meanings and extended metaphorical meanings diVers depending on the specialized corpus in which it is observed, for example, that in the medical corpus there are more physical prototypical meanings, while in the corpus of children’s literature there are more extended metaphorical meanings of perception verbs.

perception verbs ; Croatian language ; predicate complements ; prototypical physical meanings ; metaphorical meanings

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