
Part 3 of the series Observations from a Linguistic Spectator: An Annual Report. See also Part 1 and Part 2.
From events to verbs
As announced in my last blog post, I want to explore now in more detail the lexical semantics and the lexicography of Greek verbs. Verbs express events or “situations” as we call them on the most general level. We probably all have an intuitive understanding of what events/situations are: something that happens in the real world at a given point in time. We perceive these events and interpret them and give them a specific shape on a conceptual level.
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