Essays about: "Verbs of thinking"

Found 1 essay containing the words Verbs of thinking.

  1. 1. Thinking things in German versus Swedish

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Yannick Frommherz; [2019]
    Keywords : Thinking; Verbs of thinking; Semantic specificity; Cross-linguistic comparison; German; Swedish; Contextualised choice task; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Against the backdrop of universality proposals claiming that all the world’s languages share the way they conceptualise and express THINKING, this study investigates verbs of thinking in German and Swedish in a comparative perspective. In particular, it examines semantic specificity in verbs of thinking (the restricted availability of only one specific verb in a certain context), and the potential effect of two constraints (intersubjective verifiability and subjectivity). READ MORE