Pasanen-Lils.:Finnish and E nglish Verbs cf Vision. Further'Contrastive Papers, ayvaskyla contrastive Studies, 6.

ish visual ver bs and t he ccrresPcnding terms English are, examined reveal similaTities and disdmilarities in the two semantic fields on thr basis cf translation equivalence. The contrastive analysis describes how the vocabularies of twogenetically unrelated languages interpret the visual activity of seeing and looking, and what kind of aspects the terms- indicating vision reflect of that visual experience. The verbs are divided into-hree main categories: verbs expressing the faculty of sight, perceptional eeing, and intentional seeing. within these main categories, the verbs have been further classified into subcategories on the basis of their semantic properties. All of the Finnish subca tegorie s of perceptional seeing have corresponding categor_English. One category which is not represented in the Finnish field concerns the idea of failing to see scmething. English perceptional verbs appear to be generally more specific than the correspondingFinnish terms. The quantity of verbs of intentional seeing exceed the number of verbs of perceptional seeing in both Lang uageS. (SW) Reproductions sup d by EDPS ate the best that the original document. can be made oragymuNT OF FINALT14