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Perception verb complements in Akatek, a Mayan language

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238 6. TYPOLOGY OF PERCEPTION VERB COMPLEMENTS<br />

seems' to a PVC produces a conceptual read<strong>in</strong>g and thereby excludes<br />

a possible event <strong>in</strong>terpretation.<br />

(36) Tekekahne:' a:ye:' onahtokehekye' kayethwahsho'<br />

I.am.look<strong>in</strong>g it.seems they.are.grow<strong>in</strong>g they.are.planted<br />

`I see your plants are grow<strong>in</strong>g.' Mithun (1986a), 98<br />

3.1.2. Indicative, - COMP. Lack<strong>in</strong>g a complementizer, Nez Perce<br />

uses <strong>in</strong>dicative <strong>complements</strong> not only with <strong>verb</strong>s of speak<strong>in</strong>g (37), but<br />

also with <strong>verb</strong>s of cognition (38) and perception (39) (Rude, 1985).<br />

(37) hi-h -ne<br />

[;-ki-yu']<br />

3NOM-say/tell-ASP [1/2NOM-go-FUT]<br />

`He said, \I will go."' Rude (1985), 366<br />

(38) kaa waaqo' hi-cuuxwe-ne [pee-'wi-ye p ilepti-ne<br />

and now<br />

tu'yee-ne]<br />

grouse-DO]<br />

3NOM-know-ASP [3.3-shoot-ASP four-DO<br />

`And now she knew, \He had shot four grouse."'<br />

Ph<strong>in</strong>ney (1934), 34<br />

(39) k imet hi-nees-tewyek-e ['oykaloo-m<br />

when 3NOM-PL.DO-feel-ASP [all-ERG<br />

hi-welee-x-c-ix]<br />

3NOM-go.along-see-ASP-PL.NOM]<br />

`...when she sensed them \Everybody is watch<strong>in</strong>g me."'<br />

Ph<strong>in</strong>ney (1934), 432<br />

(`...when she sensed that everybody was watch<strong>in</strong>g her.'<br />

Rude (1985), 368<br />

In Mohawk, the only <strong>in</strong>dicators of the type of relationship between<br />

two sentences are di erences <strong>in</strong> tense or aspect, <strong>in</strong>tonation patterns, or<br />

demonstrative and deictic particles (Mithun, 1984). Unfortunately,<br />

no examples of proposition denot<strong>in</strong>g PVCs <strong>in</strong> Mohawk are available<br />

to me at the moment. In examples (40) and (41) the comma <strong>in</strong>dicates<br />

a pause. In (40) the demonstrative k : `this' refers to the second clause,<br />

which is separated by a pause. The demonstrative thoh `there' <strong>in</strong> example<br />

(41), on the other hand, occurs after the pause, <strong>in</strong>dicat<strong>in</strong>g the<br />

location of the second clause. 3<br />

3 Not all occurrences of demonstratives are comb<strong>in</strong>ed with pauses, they are also<br />

used when two clauses are juxtaposed without a pause like <strong>in</strong> example (i).

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