台灣閩南語視覺動詞：從認知觀點論語義範疇的轉移

Verbs of Visual Perception in Taiwanese Southern Min: A Cognitive Approach to Shift of Semantic Domains

本文從認知的觀點探討台灣閩南語「看」、「見」、「相」三個視覺動詞的多義性，其中對各個詞的多義性都做了深入的分析，特別著眼於發掘視覺範疇與其他語義範疇間的互動模式。此外，我們根據動詞和賓語間的語義共組擷取視覺動詞的一系列相關聯的語義。從本文對三個多義視覺詞的研究可以看出，知覺是我們掌握現像世界的利器，視覺範疇與非視覺範疇之間有重要的互動關係。

This paper attempts a cognitive account of the polysemy of three verbs of visual perception, viz., khoann3 看, kinn3 見, and siong3 相, in Taiwanese Southern Min. In the bulk of the paper each verb of visual perception with respect to its polysemy is elaborated on and considerable attention is devoted to uncovering the interaction of visual perception and other semantic domains. A range of related senses associated with each verb is teased out on the basis of semantic co-composition of the verb and its object. Our exploration of the polysemy of three visual perception verbs in Taiwanese Southern Min shows that visual perception is a very important means by which we cope with the world, and we find that it interacts significantly with other non-visual perceptual domains.