I will see it done: Metonymic extensions of the verb see in English
English verbs of perception appear to be significant generators of divergent polysemous senses. The aim of this paper is to propose a dictionary study of the verb see. It appears that many semantic extensions of the term are metonymic in nature, because they are motivated by metonymic shifts within...
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| Language: | English |
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Faculty of Philology, University of Bialystok
2021-03-01
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| Series: | Crossroads |
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| Online Access: | https://czasopisma.filologia.uwb.edu.pl/index.php/c/article/view/1541 |