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d. SJM91: I'll see your billion and raise you two. What fun!
Most dictionaries list this sense, but unfortunately, perhaps because it is mainly
used in conversation, I have found only two corpus examples, one from the BNC Ex. (53-c)
and one from the LDC corpus of the San Jose, California Mercury newspaper Ex. (53-d).
Although these examples are very colorful, neither is very typical; more typical examples are
Ex. (53-a) and Ex. (53-b). Wethus must depend on personal communication with several
speakers who have this sense in their idiolects. The direct object is usually the amount
of the bet being matched. Since the expression is apparently used mainly in rst person
(except in reported speech), and the speaker usually accompanies the utterance with the
action of placing the matching bet on the table; this use is, in fact a performative, even
though the verb is usually in future tense, since the simultaneous speaking and placing of
a bet constitute the act in question. Given the limited semantic range of possible subjects
and objects, this use also verges on being a collocation, but the object is not limited to a
particular set of words.
Sense VIDE
see eye
see vide
Frame see vide
type event
Uses see eye [eye]
2
3
roles:
6seer
=
4
seenvisual medium =
eye.seer =
eye.seen
the reader7
5
syn: mood imper
val:
82
>< 6
4
>:
role seer
gf ext
pt DNI
39
7>=
7
5
>;