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Copulative Perception Verbs with SententialComplements in American English:

A Corpus-based Survey

Fuminori NAKAMURA (Kitasato University)

19-23/8/2015BICLCE6

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Fuminori NAKAMURA (Kitasato University) Copulative Perception Verbs with Sentential Complements in American English: A Corpus-based Survey19-23/8/2015BICLCE6 University of Wisconsin, Madison 1

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Organization

...1 Introduction

...2 Data and Methodology

...3 Results and DiscussionsQuantative analysisQualitative analysis

...4 Summary


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...1 Introduction


...3 Results and Discussions

...4 Summary


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Objects of research

Name: Copulative perception verbs with sentential complementsForm: {look/sound/seem/appear} {as if/as though/like} Sentence

Copy Raising: sometimes called the Copy Raising Construction(Landau 2011, Asudeh and Toivonen 2012, Kim 2014:amongothers)

(1) a. It seemed/appeared as if/as though/like he was trying tohide his true identity.

b. It looked/sounded as if he was trying to hide his trueidentity.


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Copulative Perception Verbs

Copulative Perception verbs (CPVs for short) are perception verbs which...take the percept as the subjectimply that the perceiver (implicit or to-phrase)require the complement

(2) a. John looks happy (to me).b. The plan sounds reasonable (to us).


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Previous Studies: CPVs as verbs of seem

CPVs, in particular look and sound, are quite similar, though not identical,to verbs of seeming, in particular when they are with sententialcomplements.(Gisborne 2010, Matushansky 2002, Taniguchi 2005, Biberet al. 1999)

(3) a. It seemed/appeared that / as if he was trying to hide histrue identity.

b. It looked/sounded as if he was trying to hide his trueidentity.


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Previous Studies 2: Huddleston and Pullum (2002:962)

With seem and appear the content clause in what we areanalyzing as the impersonal construction can be replaced withoutany perceptible change of meaning by a phrase introduced by asif (or as though or like), a type of phrase also found with suchverbs as feel, look, smell, sound, – and be:

(4) a. It seemed that / as if he was trying to hide his true identity.b. It appeared that / as if he was trying to hide his true

identity.c. It looked/sounded as if he was trying to hide his true

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Expletives and Sentential Complements

Among CPVs, look and sound can take expletive subject it withsentential complements introduced by as if (though) and like.feel, smell and taste are unlikely to take expletive it.CPVs cannot take that-clause. (Taniguchi 2005, Gisborne 2010)


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Like vs. as if/as though (Huddleston and Pullum2002:1158)

In [59] like is in competition with as if/as though, and itscomplement is structurally complete.

(5) a. It looked like the scheme would founder before it wasproperly started.

b. You look like you need a drink.c. She clasped it in her hand like it was precious stone.d. It was like I had lost something valuable in a vault full of my

own money.


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Research Question (Synonymy Research)

How are CPVs and verbs of seeming similar and different in thediscourse?How are like and textitas if/as though similar and different in thediscourse?


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...1 Introduction



...4 Summary


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SOAP corpus as the data source

Name Corpus of American Soap OperasCompiler compiled by Mark Davies (Davies 2012–)Register American soap opera (spoken, fiction)

Size approx. 100 million tokens


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Scope of research

verbs: look, sound, seem,appearcomplementizers: like, as if, as though


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Data

as if as though like Totallook 147 (2.5%) 64 (1.1%) 5565 (96.3%) 5776 (100%)

seem 59 (4.1%) 76 (5.3%) 1297 (90.6%) 1432 (100%)sound 87 (5.7%) 33 (2.2%) 1396 (92.1%) 1516 (100%)

appear 20 (52.6%) 15 (39.5%) 3 (7.9%) 38 (100%)total 313 (3.6%) 188 (2.1%) 8261 (94.3%) 8762 (100%)

Table: Total occurrences in SOAP


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Data

look is predominent.like is predominent.appear is very infrequent.appear prefers as if (though) to like.


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Methodology: Behavioural Profiles (Berez and Gries 2008,Gries and Otani 2010, Gries 2010)

...1 retrieving data with key words & getting rid of irrelevant cases

...2 manual (formal and semantic) coding

...3 make a table (relative frequency)

...4 statistic processing (cluster analysis)


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Manual Coding Tags

subjectmatrix/subordinate clause subjectsubject type (e.g. human, expletive)subject person (i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd)

tense (i.e. present, past)aspect (i.e. perfect, progressive)voice (i.e. passive or not)modal auxiliary verbs (e.g. will, can, should, must)


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Coding Sample


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Standardization Sample


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...1 Introduction



...4 Summary


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Cluster analysis

appear_like

look_like

seem_like

sound_like

appear_as_if

appear_as_though

seem_as_though

seem_as_if

sound_as_though

sound_as_if

look_as_though

look_as_if0.00.20.40.60.81.01.21.41.6

Cluster Dendrogram

hclust (*, "ward.D")data.d

Height


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Cluster analysis 2: cluster verificationmultistep-bootstrap resampling (Shimodaira 2004, Suzuki and Shimodaira2006)

appear_like

look_like

seem_like

sound_like

appear_as_if

appear_as_though

seem_as_though

seem_as_if

sound_as_though

sound_as_if

look_as_though

look_as_if0.00.20.40.60.81.01.21.41.6

Cluster dendrogram with AU/BP values (%)

Cluster method: ward.DDistance: euclidean

Height

97 988274

719999 98

9692

au

95 946564

489384 85

6563

bp

1 234

567 8

910

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Interpretation of cluster dendrogram

Complementizers have a greater impact on clustering than verbs.(like vs. as if (though))

seem like is more similar to look like than seem as if (though).as if and as though behave in a very similar way.

seem and appear form a cluster (verbs of seeming)look and sound form a cluster. (verbs of perception)

Since as if and as though are similar, they are put together for simplicityand clarity.


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Matrix Subject

1st person 2nd person 3rd person totallook as if 5 (2.4%) 31 (14.7%) 175 (82.9%) 146 (100%)look like 380 (6.8%) 266 (4.8%) 4917 (88.4%) 5565 (100%)sound as if 4 (3.3%) 19 (15.8%) 97 (80.8%) 120 (100%)sound like 65 (4.7%) 15 (1.1%) 1316 (100%) 1353 (100%)seem as if 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 135 (100%) 135 (100%)seem like 13 (1%) 0 (0%) 1284 (99%) 1297 (100%)appear as if 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 35 (100%) 35 (100%)appear like 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 3 (100%) 3 (100%)

Table: Matrix subjects


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Matrix subject

Verbs of perception can be characterized by their 1st and 2nd personsubjects.Verbs of seeming virtually DO NOT take 1st and 2nd person pronounsas their subjects.


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1st subject (positive declarative)

This type is rather rare.

(6) a. I look like I’m in the middle of a Tim Burton film.(SOAP 2009 GL)

b. I sound like I’m really depressed.(SOAP 2009 GL)

c. Now, you see, now I sound like I’m paranoid when you probablythink that I’m the one that needs.

(SOAP 2012 GH)d. Look, I know I seem like I got it all figured out all the time, but

I don’t.(SOAP 2005 ATWT)


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1st subject (negative)

(7) a. I don’t want to look like I’m slacking.(SOAP 2008 OLTL)

b. Mom, I don’t mean to sound like I’m judging you.(SOAP 2009 ATWT)

c. I didn’t mean to sound like I’m against Michael weighing in oncompany decisions.

(SOAP 2011 GH)d. Well, we don’t want to seem like we’re anxious to sell this

thing we nurtured into a success to someone who(SOAP 2009 YR)

e. I’m sorry – I don’t mean to seem like I’m kicking you out, butI’m kicking you out.

(SOAP 2007 ATWT)


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1st subject (interrogative)

(8) a. Do I look like I’m joking?(SOAP 2002 BB)

b. Do I look like I’m kidding?(SOAP 2006 PASS)

c. Do I sound like I believe her, Jen?(SOAP 2005 DAYS)

d. Do I sound like I’m joking?(SOAP 2009 GH)

e. Do I sound like I’m kidding?(SOAP 2002 AMC)

f. So do I seem like I’m back to my old self?(SOAP 2011 DAYS)


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1st subject (with make)

(9) a. In fact, she makes me look like I’m in slow motion.(SOAP 2001 DAYS)

b. You made me look like I was as smart as you were.(SOAP 2008 DAYS)

c. You’re making us sound like we were some nightmare.(SOAP 2004 GH)

d. Then it makes me seem like I’m the jealous wife, which I’m not.(SOAP 2010 GH)

e. Don’t make me seem like I’m some pathetic ” stand by yourman ” wife.

(SOAP 2004 GL)


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1st subject (with clause)

(10) a. , and we figured we would fit in more with everyone else if welooked like we were a couple.

(SOAP 2008 GL)b. If I sounded like I was embarrassed to be with you, I’m not.

(SOAP 2007 GH)c. Even if I seem like I’m me, I just can’t let Tess out.

(SOAP 2005 OLTL)


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2nd person subject (normal)

(11) a. You look like I just asked you to jump off a building.(SOAP 2010 OLTL)

b. You sound as though you’re convicted and sentenced evenbefore jury’s heard the case.

(SOAP 2007 BB)c. You sound like we’re already divorced.

(SOAP 2008 DAYS)


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2nd person subject (negative)

(12) a. You don’t look like you’re sleeping well either.(SOAP 2007 YR)

b. You know, you do not look like you’ve been studying.(SOAP 2007 GL)


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2nd person subject (interrogative)

(13) a. So then why do you look like you just lost your best friend?(SOAP 2011 DAYS)

b. Yes, Jack. I mean, how else are you going to look like you’reconvincingly turned on?

(SOAP 2001 DAYS)


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2nd subject with make

(14) a. I made you look like you practically invented rock’ n’ roll.(SOAP 2003 PC)

b. No offense, but your profile picture makes you look like you’re10.

(SOAP 2012 GH)


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Matrix Subject Category

Table: Subject category in ascending order according to expletive subject

expletive Human Omitted there thing totalappear like 33.3% 66.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%

look like 46.3% 22.4% 29.7% 0.0% 1.6% 100.0%sound like 52.7% 15.4% 28.9% 0.0% 2.9% 100.0%look as if 67.8% 21.9% 5.5% 0.0% 4.8% 100.0%seem like 67.9% 18.8% 12.0% 0.0% 1.2% 100.0%

look as though 73.4% 10.9% 12.5% 0.0% 3.1% 100.0%sound as if 74.7% 20.7% 2.3% 0.0% 2.3% 100.0%

sound as though 75.8% 24.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%seem as if 81.4% 1.7% 15.3% 0.0% 1.7% 100.0%

seem as though 85.5% 0.0% 14.5% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%appear as though 86.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 13.3% 100.0%

appear as if 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%total 52.3% 20.3% 25.7% 0.0% 1.8% 100.0%


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Interpretation

The choice of the subject is more closely related to complementizers.like tends to take human subjects.as if (though) prefers expletive it.

Omitted subjects are more closely related to individual patternsThese factors have an effect on formalness.


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Modal auxiliaries verbs in the subordinate clausesmay be about to be going to can could have to

look as if 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 12 (8.2%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)look as though 2 (3.1%) 0 (0%) 4 (6.3%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)

look like 27 (0.5%) 64 (1.2%) 582 (10.5%) 65 (1.2%) 104 (1.9%) 0 (0%)seem as if 0 (0%) 1 (1.1%) 2 (2.3%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)

seem as though 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)seem like 4 (0.3%) 8 (0.6%) 58 (4.2%) 6 (0.4%) 14 (1%) 0 (0%)

sound as if 0 (0%) 1 (1.7%) 2 (3.4%) 0 (0%) 2 (3.4%) 0 (0%)sound as though 1 (1.3%) 0 (0%) 1 (1.3%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1 (1.3%)

sound like 1 (0.1%) 2 (0.2%) 28 (2.2%) 25 (1.9%) 16 (1.2%) 2 (0.2%)appear as if 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1 (5%) 1 (5%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)

appear as though 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)appear like 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)

might need to should used to will would total

3 (2%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1 (0.7%) 0 (0%) 147 (100%)0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 64 (100%)

82 (1.5%) 13 (0.2%) 18 (0.3%) 0 (0%) 146 (2.6%) 26 (0.5%) 5565 (100%)0 (0%) 1 (1.1%) 1 (1.1%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 2 (2.3%) 87 (100%)0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 33 (100%)

17 (1.2%) 10 (0.7%) 10 (0.7%) 1 (0.1%) 21 (1.5%) 18 (1.3%) 1396 (100%)0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1 (1.7%) 0 (0%) 59 (100%)

1 (1.3%) 0 (0%) 1 (1.3%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 76 (100%)14 (1.1%) 1 (0.1%) 10 (0.8%) 1 (0.1%) 3 (0.2%) 18 (1.4%) 1297 (100%)

0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 20 (100%)0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 15 (100%)0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 3 (100%)


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Interpretation

By and large, like-clause contains more modal auxiliary verbs than asif/though-clause.look (like) tends to take future modal auxiliary verbs such as be goingto and will.Expressing Speaker’s prediction


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...1 Introduction



...4 Summary


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Summary

Verbs can be classified without PERCEPTION tags. (cluster analysis)The combination with complementizers (cluster)Perception verbs are used to talk about concrete things (matrixsubject)like is used to talk about future. (subordinate modal verbs)as if and as though are used to describe some situation. (subjectcategory)


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