17.3449, Qs: SEE and CAUSE

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Subject: 17.3449, Qs: SEE and CAUSE

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Date: 18-Nov-2006
From: Jean-Charles Khalifa < jck at ricky.univ-poitiers.fr >
Subject: SEE and CAUSE 

	
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:52:02
From: Jean-Charles Khalifa < jck at ricky.univ-poitiers.fr >
Subject: SEE and CAUSE 
 


Dear all,

Still working on the fuzzy boundary between causatives and perception 
verbs, I have started looking at the English SEE-construction in examples 
like :

She saw him to the door
They saw her home
I'll see you to the airport
See a book through

I was wondering

1) whether there has been any in-depth work at all, in any framework, on 
such constructions
2) whether there were languages exhibiting such meanings with verbs 
meaning SEE or any other perception verb.

Thanks in advance, I'll post a summary if need be.

Jean-Charles Khalifa
University of Poitiers, France 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax




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