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Finnish and English Verbs of Vision. Further Contrastive Papers, Jyvaskyla Contrastive Studies, 6. Reports from the Department of English, No. 7.
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Pasanen, Maija-Liisa – 1978
Finnish visual verbs and the corresponding terms in English are examined to reveal similarities and dissimilarities in the two semantic fields on the basis of translation equivalence. The contrastive analysis describes how the vocabularies of two genetically unrelated languages interpret the visual activity of seeing and looking, and what kind of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Componential Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)