The Semantics of Verbs of Aural Perception in Old Church Slavic

Abstract

This article deals with semantics of the Old Church Slavonic perception verbs oštutiti, čuti, viděti, ględati, zʹrěti, slyšati, slušati. The research, basedon the corpus of the Codex Marianus, encompasses the analysis of their syntactic-semantic features and tne conditions which enable their metaphorization into the domain of "mental perception". In the conclusion the author points out the semantic features on which the mapping from the domain of sensory perception into the cognitive domain is based, as well as the way in which Old Churc Slavonic linguistic structures represent the cognitive dynamics of perception and cognition.