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CHAPTER 2. A FRAME SEMANTIC ANALYSIS 83<br />

<strong>Frame</strong> see news<br />

profiles Seen<br />

type event<br />

cat V<br />

lexm see<br />

Uses see recognize [rec]<br />

2<br />

3<br />

roles:<br />

6Seer<br />

=<br />

4<br />

Seen =<br />

eye.Seer =<br />

rec.Seen =<br />

rec.Seer<br />

7<br />

5<br />

eye.Seen.Content<br />

22<br />

33<br />

scenes:<br />

6 event<br />

66<br />

66<br />

66<br />

66Uses<br />

66<br />

44<br />

roles:<br />

77<br />

77<br />

see eye [eye] 77<br />

77<br />

77<br />

57<br />

5<br />

Seenvisual medium<br />

val:<br />

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6role<br />

eye.Seen 7<br />

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pt DNI _ PP<br />

(45) a. I see that the governor has nally decided to support the university.<br />

b. I hear that the President isintown.<br />

c. I can hear (by/from your voice) that you have a cold.<br />

Content isnotaroleinsee eye, but because of the semantic restriction to visual medium,<br />

we can be sure that it will have a content to which we can refer here 13 . When the medium<br />

is expressed, it selects for speci c prepositions:<br />

(46) Isaw in the Chronicle/on the ten o'clock news/?from the newspaper/?by the news-<br />

paper that Congress has adjourned.<br />

This sense can be considered an extension of the \ordinary" visual evidential use,<br />

which wehave called recognize, <strong>and</strong> Alm-Arvius (1993:122-128) treats both read <strong>and</strong><br />

news as \pragmatic expansions" of eye. However, because so much of our knowledge of<br />

13 Cf. Pustejovsky's (1995) treatment of the qualia for books.

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