שינוי לשוני בפועלי החישה – התבנית "מרגיש לי": [מתוך המדור: סמנטיקה]

This paper presents a usage-based cognitive linguistics study. It deals with language change in the field of perception verbs in Hebrew. We would like to argue that the Hebrew language creates new constructions that differently cover the accepted divisions between the senses. We focused on the Hebrew construction margish li (*"feels to me") and looked for the connections between it and similar non-governed dative marker constructions that describe other perception verbs. The central question is how has the construction margish li evolved over the years, and why? To answer this question, we posed another question: is it possible to express the meaning of each of the sensory functions by the verb margish ("feel" in Hebrew) and preserve the meaning of the original perception verb? We have found that the base verb, le'hargish ("to feel") - which does not explicitly belong to the five senses - functions as a holistic verb in the sensory sense, and in a way - is a "super-sense". Next, we examined how the non-governed dative marker construction is expressed in all perception verbs. Then, we examined the construction margish li - its development, its characteristics, and its relationship with the constructions of the other perception verbs. It was found that from the moment margish took its place as the "super-sense", margish li was created automatically, by virtue of the existence of the constructions nir'eh li (*"seems to me"), nishma li (*"sounds to me") and so on - and by analogy to them. There was a process of analogy and lexicalization.