标题:Psychophysical and Physical Causative Emotion Verbs in Finnish: The Temporal Structure of Causative Emotion Verb + Infinitive 1 -Constructions within Conceptual Semantics
摘要:The purpose of this article is to illustrate the differences between psychophysical (e.g.
heikottaa, ‘feel weak’) and physical (e.g. janottaa, ‘be thirsty’) causative emotion verbs
in Finnish by studying the factors that determine the temporal structure of the causative
emotion verb + infinitive 1 -construction. The focus, in other words, is whether the
situation expressed by the infinitive 1 verb lasts as long as the situation expressed by the
matrix verb, or whether the situation expressed by the infinitive 1 verb precedes or
follows the situation expressed by the matrix verb. Moreover, the article shows why
clauses such as Minua janottaa kävellä kotiin (‘It makes me thirsty to walk home’) do
not sound natural in Finnish. It is shown that the temporal structure of a well-formed
causative emotion verb + infinitive 1 -construction is determined by the properties of
both the infinitive 1 (the aspect of the verb) and the matrix verb (the semantics of the
verb). Formal rules of grammar for the temporal structure of causative emotion verb +
adjunct -constructions are constructed based on the framework conceptual semantics.