VERBS OF PERCEPTION FROM THE COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE
VERBS OF PERCEPTION FROM THE COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE

Summary/Abstract: THIS PAPER ADDRESSES THE ISSUE OF CLASSIFYING THE VERBS OF PERCEPTION ACCORDING TO COGNITIVE PRINCIPLES. TWO TYPES OF CLASSIFICATIONS WILL BE PRESENTED: ONE BASED ON THE BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS THAT THE VERBS REPRESENT AND ANOTHER ONE ACCORDING TO LINGUISTIC CRITERIA. THE FIRST TYPE OF CLASSIFICATION BELONGS TO SOME FAMOUS COGNITIVE SCHOLARS (LAKOFF AND JOHNSON 1999) AND IS BASED ON THE EMBODIED MIND CONCEPT WHILE THE SECOND TYPE IS FORMULATED BY MEANS OF LINGUISTIC CRITERIA. WE HAVE INSISTED UPON THE LATTER, BY MENTIONING SEVERAL LINGUISTIC CLASSIFICATIONS SUCH AS THE ONE TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE SEMANTIC ROLE OF THE SUBJECTS: PASSIVE PERCEPTION, ACTIVE PERCEPTION VERBS AND COPULATIVE / EVIDENTIAL VERBS. THE CLASSIFICATION OF PERCEPTION VERBS INTO ACTIVE, PASSIVE AND COPULATIVE IS THE TERMINOLOGY ADOPTED BY US FROM A MULTITUDE OF TERMS DENOTING THE TYPES OF PERCEPTION THAT WILL BE USED THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PAPER.

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