Koselak, Arkadiusz (2004). Rêver: questions sémantiques [Dreaming: Semantic questions]. Le langage et l’homme, 39(1), 85-108.
Written in French.
This article looks at some of the semantic aspects of dreaming. After an introduction aimed at exploring the relationship between the etymology of the verb and the ethnology of the process, a description of the meanings of the French verb rêver is proposed, together with the supposedly prototypical conditions for the selection of each meaning. Lastly, we shall look at agentivity, a crucial parameter needed to establish the uniqueness of the verb in the paradigm of mental verbs. The study is set against the backdrop of the cognitive approach to language (broadly defined) and a Wierzbickian perspective is adopted.
