Grebe, Heinrich Philip2012-08-072012-08-071988Grebe, HP 1988, 'Die kousatiefwerkwoord in Afrikaans as ’n sensor-motoriese metafoor', Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 161-168.0041-4751http://hdl.handle.net/2263/19554Article digitised using: Suprascan 1000 RGB scanner, scanned at 400 dpi; 24-bit colour; 100% Image derivating - Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3 - Image levels, crop, deskew Abbyy Fine Reader No.9 - Image manipulation + OCR Adobe Acrobat 9 (PDF)Every human language provides a set of conventions for the mapping of communicative intentions unto utterances. According to J. H. Greenberg these encoding conventions are constrained by human tendencies to think and talk about images in certain set ways. This article looks into a very interesting case of the sensory-motor metaphor in Afrikaans - i.e. the way in which specific causative constructions in Afrikaans reflect the basic metaphor of a concrete human actor. It will be argued that the choice between a complex causative construction such as Hy laat die vleis ontvries and the corresponding simplex construction Hy ontvries die vleis is determined by the potential of the complex construction to express two salient events - the initiating and the resulting events - whereas the simplex construction expresses only one conceptual event.8 pagesPDFAfrikaansSuid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en KunsKousatiefWerkwoordAfrikaanse taalkundeSensory-motor metaphorSensormotoriese metafoorCausative (Linguistics)Grammar, Comparative and general -- VerbAfrikaans languageLinguisticsMetaphorArticle