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The road to the audible: dynamic structuring of perception by the verbs ‘ibhöras’/ib (Swedish) and ‘ibkuulua’/ib (Finnish) ‘be audible’

Abstract

The paper investigates constructions with the verbs höras, in Swedish, and kuulua, in Finnish, both meaning ‘to be audible’. The aim is to shed light on the semantic structure of ‘audibility’ and the dynamic conceptualization of the audible event. The paper draws on conceptual tools provided by cognitive linguistics, namely the notions of profiling and path schema. Both verbs are used with a subject referring to the stimulus, while the experiencer remains implicit. Höras co-occurs most often with items denoting the static location of the stimulus, whereas constructions with kuulua display a strong tendency to profile the point of departure of the sound. This difference is accounted for in terms of linguistic actualization. Höras carries a morphological trace of person marking, i.e. of a link between the event and a specific spatio-temporal setting. It therefore allows to foreground the actual location of the sound. Kuulua presents the event at its initial stage, as a capacity to be perceived by an unspecific experiencer.

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