To Want: An Essay in Semantics, Volumes 13-15

18th century action apprehension Castle of Otranto Chaucer Cowper dative definite Defoe denoting desire drempte English equivocal examples factual context feeling Forsyte frequent function Gaaf Galsworthy gerund Golspie hearer impersonal verbs implied intr Jeeves Jespersen John Barbour language linguistic looked meaning lack meaning of want mental content Milton necessary necessity nominal obj non-personal subjects noun objects Ormulum Oscar Wilde Otto Jespersen permutation personal interest personal obj personal subjects phrase phrase-meaning possible Prel preposition present Priestley pronoun Quincey relational meaning Robinson Crusoe semantic area sense sense-change sentence Shakesp similar Smeeth speaker speaking speech act speech situation Spenser Stern subj synonyms synonymy syntactical change thee thing lacking thou thought transition period verb want verbal context verbal notion volition wantede wanteth wish Wodehouse word want word-meaning þat