TY - JOUR AU - Seres, Daria AU - Espinal, M.Teresa PY - 2018/05/18 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Psychological verbs and their arguments JF - Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics JA - Borealis VL - 7 IS - 1 SE - Articles on the monographic topic DO - 10.7557/1.7.1.4404 UR - https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/borealis/article/view/4404 SP - 27-44 AB - In this paper it is argued that objects of subject experiencer psychological verbs do not have kind reference, but rather refer to individual object entities: specific individuals, generic plurals, and even entity correlates of a property. We argue that objects of transitive subject experiencer psychological verbs must refer to atoms or sums of atoms, because they presuppose the existence of the Target-of-Emotion. Focusing mainly on data from various Romance languages and Russian, we also argue that the Target-of-emotion of psychological verbs such as <em>odiar </em>‘hate’ cannot refer to a kind entity, conceived as an abstract individual or an abstract sortal concept, but instead can refer to a maximal sum of individual entities, instantiated through a generic plural. ER -