Perception verb complements in Akatek, a Mayan language

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16 1. INTRODUCTION biased by the hypothesis of the researcher. The use of sources that already rely on secondary sources should be avoided altogether since they potentially introduce or perpetuate errors or misreadings of the original. A typical example of a misreading is the following: Givon (1995) uses Sacapultec (Maya) to support `the VSO-language argument' while in the source, DuBois (1987) notes that Sacapultec is a VOS language, which is in accordance with the fact that other members of the same branch in the Mayan family of languages are also either VOS or VOS/VSO exible (Dayley, 1981; England, 1991; Quizar, 1979). Detailed analyses of PVCs are rare in secondary sources, so that I decided to investigate PVCs in one language, Akatek (Maya), in detail and to embed the obtained results into a broader typological perspective. I used data obtained from three di erent sources: from a grammar, from text collections and from elicitation. The grammar of Akatek o ers a wealth of examples, many taken from texts, and is kept fairly descriptive(Zavala, 1992b). The second source of data is a published bilingual text collection (Penalosa & Say, 1992) along with texts of a native speaker (Franco, 1993). These texts, folk tales and personal narratives, were recorded, transcribed and edited with the help of the author. 9 The third type of data was collected during interviews with two native speakers concentrating on the elicitation of grammaticality judgments and translations during a one-month eld trip. All Akatek data in this thesis are from my eld notes unless indicated otherwise. 4. Methodology In this thesis, I adhere to a combination of partial and comparative typology. On one hand, the investigation focuses on one speci c construction type, namely perception verb complements (PVCs). On the other hand, emphasis is given to the detailed description of one language, Akatek, and its comparison with English, which has been described in considerable detail. In addition, basic typological characteristics of Akatek such asword order are compared to English in order to investigate whether there are any correlations between traditional typological features and PVCs. The results of the description of the PVC systems of Akatek and English are embedded within the typological system of general complementation established by Noonan 9 The texts of Roberto Franco were collected and interlinearized in 1993 at the University of Oregon by myself and other students, who also generously shared their interlinearized versions of large parts of Penalosa & Say (1992) with me.
4. METHODOLOGY 17 (1985). The notion of PVC system employed in this thesis involves the complex relationships between two semantic types, events and propositions, and the di erent structural PVC types employed in each language to express these semantic types. The characterization of the semantic types is based on Vendler (1967), the description of the structural and semantic characteristics of the PVC types builds on the research that has been done on PVCs in English. After that, selected languages are used to develop a typology of PVC systems. In addition to presenting the cross-linguistic variety ofPVCs, a number of correlations are established and based on these, a preliminary implicational hierarchy is presented. Due to the problems regarding secondary data sources and the di culties of obtaining detailed information on PVC systems in a large number of languages, the results of the typological correlations must be seen as tentative. More speci cally, I adhere to the following research strategy. The rst step is to de ne the two semantic types, describe lexicalization patterns and cognitive extension of the matrix PVs and de ne PVCs. Next, English PVCs are characterized structurally and semantically. This description permits to correlate the structural types with the semantic types and then correlate the outcome with typological ndings regarding complementation. Based on these results, the structural and semantic characteristics of Akatek PVCs are described. Then, Akatek PVCtypes are correlated with the semantic types, compared to English PVC types, integrated into the typology of complementation and correlated with general typological characterisitics. Finally, supplementing the results obtained from the detailed analyses of Akatek and English PVC systems with data from selected languages, a typology of PVCs is developed. The individual steps taken are summarized below: 1. De nition of semantic types: events and propositions 2. Lexicalization and cognitive extension of PVs 3. De nition of structural types: PVCs 4. English PVCs: (a) Structural and semantic characterization (b) Correlation with semantic types (c) Correlation with typology of complementation 5. Akatek PVCs: (a) Structural and semantic characterization (b) Correlation with semantic types (c) Comparison to English PVC types (d) Correlation with typology of complementation (e) Correlation with general typological characteristics
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CHAPTER 4 Akatek, a `typical' Mayan
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CHAPTER 5 Perception verb complemen
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1. INTRODUCTION 137 Type3 complemen
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2. LEXICALIZATION OF PERCEPTION VER
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3. PVCS OF TYPE2 143 following two
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3. PVCS OF TYPE2 151 The meaning di
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3. PVCS OF TYPE2 161 (73) a. x-ach-
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3. PVCS OF TYPE2 167 in such a cons
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3. PVCS OF TYPE2 169 tive and intra
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3. PVCS OF TYPE2 171 Example (97) s
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3. PVCS OF TYPE2 175 the preverbal
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4. PVCS OF TYPE1 207 complements, s
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CHAPTER 6 Typology of perception ve
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1. PVC TYPES 227 subjunctive comple
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CHAPTER 7 Conclusion In this thesis
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3. INTERPRETATION OF PVC TYPES 249
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4. TYPOLOGY OF PVC SYSTEMS 251 deno
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5. NON-PV MATRIX PREDICATES 253 The
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ABBREVIATIONS 255 Abbreviations ; z
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ABBREVIATIONS 257 PART participle P
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Bibliography 259 Bibliography Abney
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