Chapter 3. Perception eventualities, cognition events, and their root-based morphosyntax

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Chapter 3
Perception eventualities, cognition events, and their root-based morphosyntax

Published online: 23 March 2026

Article outline

3.1Main issues
- 3.1.1Lexicalization of perception, polycategoriality, and roots of senses
- 3.1.2A basic tripartite typology
- 3.1.3Body parts or organs as roots
- 3.1.4manner and instrument as roots
- 3.1.5Argument structure and complementation
  - 3.1.5.1(In)Transitivity
  - 3.1.5.2Complementation
- 3.1.6Morphosyntactic alternations: Root affixes and category affixes
3.2The root-based constructional approach
- 3.2.1Basic semantics
- 3.2.2Basic trees/structures and syntactic classes
3.3Cognitive events
- 3.3.1Productivity along three templates
- 3.3.2Productive templatic allosemy
3.4Summary and conclusion
Notes