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CHAPTER 2. A FRAME SEMANTIC ANALYSIS 94<br />

usually expressed as an NP or an AP. seer comes to regard seen as an instance of cate-<br />

gory, a fact which is not immediately obvious.<br />

classify can be considered as related to recognize <strong>and</strong> condition. The choice<br />

of classify rather than either of these creates a scalar implicature that the seer's belief<br />

is at least a matter of opinion <strong>and</strong> possibly not true, as in Ex. (51-c) vs. the much stronger<br />

Ex. (51-b). This sense is semantically very similar to regard X as Y, or view X as Y, but<br />

the syntactic patterns are di erent for each word (cf. Ex. (10) on page 50). Some of the<br />

same forms can also be used to express the e ects of an optical illusion (Ex. (51-a)).<br />

There are also sentences of the pattern see X as Y which mean something like `at<br />

the time when he/she/it was/will be' (e.g. Ex. (51-d)). Distinguishing these cases, which<br />

should probably be classi ed as condition, from occurrences of classify will almost<br />

certainly require inferencing based on knowledge of the world. For more discussion of the<br />

valence alternations, see Levin (1993:181-2) on Appoint Verbs, including consider (which<br />

hardly belongs there semantically), <strong>and</strong> Characterize Verbs, including regard <strong>and</strong> see.<br />

Sense EXPERIENCE<br />

service as<br />

see experience

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