Morphologie et représentation événementielle : le cas des noms de sentiment et d'attitude

Abstract

J. C. Anscombre Among the so-called "psych-nouns", feelings and attitudes represent an intuitive point of view. In fact, a more careful examination of their linguistic properties clearly shows that such notions as feelings and attitudes might very well be unfounded linguistically speaking. This paper is an attempt to establish such a classification on aspectual grounds, in terms of event representation. Another claim is that morphology is relevant, that is noun and adjective formation give some access to the event representation above mentioned.