Abstract Languages differ in their number of basic verbs that describe perceptual experience. Some languages have only two such verbs: one for visual perception and another for non-visual perception. How do speakers of these languages conceptualize sensory perception? To shed light on this question, this paper investigates the perception verbs mɔ̀ ‘see’ and nu ‘hear/feel/taste/smell’ in Avatime (Kwa, Niger-Congo). These verbs are studied together with the constructions in which they occur, using both translated data and spontaneous discourse. Both perception meanings and meanings outside the domain of perception are taken into account. The detailed picture that emerges shows some previously undocumented patterns of perception encoding and enriches our understanding of the conceptualization of the senses more generally.

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感知动词与感官概念化：Avatime案例

摘要语言在描述感知体验的基本动词数量上有所不同。一些语言只有两个这样的动词：一个用于视觉感知，另一个用于非视觉感知。这些语言的使用者如何将感官感知概念化？为了阐明这个问题，本文研究了Avatime（Kwa，Niger-Congo）中的感知动词mɔ̀'see'和nu'hear / feel / taste / smell'。使用翻译的数据和自发的话语，研究这些动词及其出现的结构。感知意义和感知范围之外的意义都被考虑在内。出现的详细图片显示了一些以前未记录的感知编码模式，更广泛地丰富了我们对感官概念化的理解。