CiteSeerX - Document Details (Isaac Councill, Lee Giles, Pradeep Teregowda): This paper presents a frame-theoretic account of the inferential and non-inferential use of German perception verbs like klingen ‘sound’, aussehen ‘look (like)’, and sich anfühlen ‘feel (like)’. Most verbs and verbal expressions in German need the preposition zu put before the infinitive at the end of the sentence. Verbs of perception, thought, expression of feeling, knowledge and will: Nico glaubt, dass seine Eltern ihn nicht verstehen. Verbs of perception, like “sehen, hören, spüren, fühlen, …”. (Like all nouns.) In requests with the verbs “müssen” and “sollen” the subject and the modal verb get deleted, so that only the infinitive clause remains. 1. Modal verbs like “können, dürfen, mögen, …”. It was found that English and German perception verbs can express evidential meaning in a number of different complementation patterns, and that the type of evidential meaning, as well as the type and degree of (inter)subjective meaning expressed, are linked to these constructions. Verbs of movement like “gehen, kommen, fahren, laufen, …”. Mar 1, 2019 - Explore Tatyana Toulchinsky's board "Verbs of perception", followed by 151 people on Pinterest. See more ideas about verb, perception, vocabulary worksheets. Modal Verbs: können, dürfen, müssen, sollen, wollen, mögen (möcht-) … ... Impersonal expressions: Es ist wichtig, dass Nico eine Arbeit findet. However, there are a few groups of verbs that go with the infinitive without zu. Expressions with an adjective + sein: Nico ist sicher, dass er in Deutschland bleiben will. The gerund in German is just the infinitive, capitalized. Verbs of perception The verbs of involuntary perception ( to see , to hear , to feel , to smell , to taste ) have certain characteristics in common: • They are often used with the auxiliary verb can : Verbs of perception sense verbs + adjective and sense verbs + like+ noun ID: 1030653 Language: English School subject: English as a Second Language (ESL) Grade/level: elementary Age: 14+ Main content: Sense verbs Other contents: present simple third person Add to my workbooks (30) All gerunds are neuter, and when there’s a plural, it has no added ending or umlaut. A gerund is a verb used as a noun, as in "The Taming of the Shrew" or "the running of the bulls." 3 Dataset of German Perception Verbs In this section, we describe the creation of our dataset of German perception verbs in three steps: (i) sampling the perception verbs (Section 3.1), (ii) identification of literal and non-prototypical meanings (Section 3.2), and (iii) corpus annota-tion with perception senses (Section 3.3). Earlier work has to a great extent focused on the concepts 'see' and 'hear'. In English and German, for instance, the verbs of perception - those verbs denoting sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste - are prime carriers of evidential meaning. In addition to the modals, there are a small number of other verbs that follow this pattern, namely lassen, helfenand verbs of perception: sehen, fühlen, hören Ich … This paper presents an analysis of the field of perception verbs in Swedish within a typological and contrastive framework.