The structure of the sight domain in Slavic: Bulgarian, Polish, and Russian verbs of visual perception in a parallel corpus
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11185-025-09323-9" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11185-025-09323-9</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The structure of the sight domain in Slavic: Bulgarian, Polish, and Russian verbs of visual perception in a parallel corpus
Original language description
The paper offers a quantitative exploration of semantic relations between sight verbs in three Slavic languages - Bulgarian, Polish and Russian. Based on parallel-corpus data, I use the frequencies of pairwise correspondence between a broad range of sight verbs. The goal is to test the relevance of semantic distinctions typically drawn in typologically-oriented research on perception and to explore the semantic structure of the class in an empirically grounded way. First, the study addresses the relation between basic verbs and semantic generality. Basic and non-basic sight verbs within one language are compared with respect to their similarity to basic verbs of the other languages and in terms of the evenness of their correspondences to non-basic verbs in the other languages. The results show that the distinction between basic and non-basic verbs can be more or less clear-cut depending on the semantic type of verbs and on the language. Second, the distinction between 'see'- and 'look'-verbs was found relevant for the structuring on the domain of sight. Sight verbs are similar either to basic 'see'-verbs or to 'look'-verbs, or to neither of the two. There is more potential for lexical renewal among 'look'-verbs as compared to 'see'-verbs. Finally, the study shows that imperfective 'look'-verbs more freely correspond to each other than perfectives, suggesting less clear semantic contrasts in the descriptions of ongoing perception as compared to the result of perception.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Russian Linguistics
ISSN
0304-3487
e-ISSN
1572-8714
Volume of the periodical
49
Issue of the periodical within the volume
15
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
35
Pages from-to
nestránkováno
UT code for WoS article
001586284400002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105018181519