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CHAPTER 2. A FRAME SEMANTIC ANALYSIS 110<br />

area of the brain. We recognize friends almost instantly, with no conscious processing, yet<br />

most people have di culty in describing even very familiar faces accurately. We simply<br />

don't know what cues we are using to recognize our friends.<br />

2.8 Conclusions<br />

I hope that the reader has been convinced of the original premises of this chapter,<br />

that see is highly polysemous <strong>and</strong> that most of the various senses of see are related to<br />

each other in ways that are motivated, if not wholly predictable. The <strong>Frame</strong> <strong>Semantic</strong><br />

representation allows us to express <strong>clearly</strong> the relation of the senses to each other <strong>and</strong> to<br />

other lexical items, especially verbs of perception <strong>and</strong> cognition.

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