Seeing clearly: Frame Semantic, Psycholinguistic, and Cross ...

of \metaphorical motion" uses of see (e.g. Ican see all the way to the bay), a typed-feature
structure treatmentoftheseer and seen, and a discussion of how to handle some problems
with re exives (e.g. He sees himself as a hero).
Chapter 4. Psycholinguistic Experiments
In this chapter I report the results of a series of experiments intended to shed
light on the psychological reality of separate senses. Avariety of tasks were used: free
categorization by sorting cards containing example sentences with see into sense categories,
forced categorization using a set of categories devised by the experimenters, and two timed
tasks measuring reaction times for lexical decision and categorial judgement for the same
example sentences.
Chapter 5. What the Dictionaries Say
This chapter compares the sense divisions given for see in a large monolingual
dictionary and several small ones, and discusses what lexicographers have tosay about how
they decide about sense divisions. I also examine bilingual dictionaries between English and
Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese, to see how well the sense divisions and the words used in
translating see match the English sense divisions based on other evidence.
Chapter 6. Conclusions and Future Research Directions
This chapter summarizes the results and suggests directions for future study. While
we should not assume that all the pieces will t neatly together, if there appears to be little
or no coherence among the various types of evidence, that would bode ill for the prospect
of the establishment of an empirically-based theory of polysemy. I also discuss a number of
questions that remain to be answered and outline a program of research designed to answer
some of them.
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