Comparative Concept: perception verb (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
perception verb (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | perception verb |
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Definition
a perception verb is a verb that expresses the event of perceiving an object. Example: Tim heard the macaw is an example of a perception event, and hear is the perception verb (Section 7.4).