Tags · Domain Modality Possibility, necessity, or attempt, short of asserting that the event came off. Topics with this tag Pathway How does “see” come to mean “try”? Verbs of seeing repeatedly become markers of attempting. Japanese 食べてみる “eat and see”, Korean 먹어 보다, Mandarin 試試看, and the Turkic converb + kör- constructions all say “do it and see” for “try doing it”; Voinov (2013) traces the co-lexification across Eurasia, New Guinea, India, and West Africa. PerceptionModalityColexificationMultiverb construction +6 From seeing to trying → More in this facet Existence 4Location 2Possession 3Negation 4Indefiniteness 1Quantification 1Perception 2Obligation 1Device operation 1Grammatical relations 1Spatial relation 1
