view of argument structure is that a verb is given a set of arguments. the proper forum for specifying the formal semantics of the event structure proposed .. of Aristotles theory of explanation and its relation to perception. 38. 5.2.4.3 Agent and experiencer subjects ?This study examines the semantics and syntactic behaviour of perception verbs such as look, see, taste, hear, feel, sound and listen.

This paper discusses relative clauses in Hong Kong English, and considers a number of questions about the morphosyntactic feature system of Hong Kong English, comparing relevant attestations from local data to those found in other varieties of English. It looks at the ways in which relative constructions in Cantonese may affect how relative clauses in Hong Kong English are formed, and also examines the degree to which the relative clause system of Hong Kong English is independent of the relative clause system of both Cantonese and standard native-speaker varieties of English, and therefore could be said to provide evidence of whether Hong Kong English is an independent variety of English or not.

In this corpus-based article we explore the development of evidential meanings in English verbs of appearance, together with their acquisition of evaluative meanings. We explore the relationship of these semantic changes to the question of whether there is an increase in subjectivity diachronically, and we show that subjectivity is orthogonal to both developments: an increase in subjectivity appears rather to go with the spread of small clause constructions.

This article reviews literature on constructional change and its integration with grammaticalisation theory. It discusses a number of issues that are relevant to work on grammaticalisation and addresses several questions which fall out from a constructional view of grammaticalisation. It explores a constructional approach to grammaticalisation and the question of how constructions change and evaluates whether construction grammar is useful to linguists examining grammaticalisation changes to lexical items. It also considers the relationship between constructional change and the grammaticalisation of lexical items.