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

CHAPTER 2. A FRAME SEMANTIC ANALYSIS 48
gambling: To equal another player's bet in order to be allowed to see his or her cards.
I'll see your twenty and raise you ten.
He said he'd see me; his face fell when I turned up the kings.
Compositional uses
hallucinate: Tohave the sensation of seeing without the usual external physical stimulus.
The exhausted soldiers saw enemies behind every tree.
Hallucinogens can make people see the walls breathing and hear trees talking.
scan: A process analogous to eye or recognize, but performed by amachine.
The new satellite sees a larger area of North America.
When the monitor sees a sudden change in the heart rate, it alerts the nurses.
spectate: To witness the occurrence of an event (including performances)
He saw the accident and rushed over to help the injured people.
She saw the sack of the city by the Romans.
Have you ever seen acricket match?
She went toNewYork to see Angels in America.
tour: To visit a place in order to learn about it or for pleasure
After years of dreaming about it, she nally saw Italy last year.
If you're going to buy their products, you really should see the factory.
vide: To look at a speci c location in printed matter in order to learn something.
See Appendix C for the mechanical speci cations.
The megaliths were arranged in a nearly perfect circle (see Fig. 3, p. 48).
Traditional Tests for Sense Di erences
Having gone through such a long list, the reader mightbewondering what evidence
there is to justify such ne distinctions, and which might be considered di erent uses of
the same underlying sense. Lexical semanticists have usedavariety of tests to determine
whether a word has more than one sense (see Cruse (1986:Ch. 3) for a more thorough
discussion). Let us consider four of them as evidence for the distinctness of some of the
senses shown above: synonymy, separate negation, zeugma, and identity of senses.