Perception verb complements in Akatek, a Mayan language

44 2. PERCEPTION VERBS AND THEIR COMPLEMENTS
(31) Juan vio a Maria [cruzar la calle]
John saw to Mary [cross the street]
`John saw Mary cross the street.'
Nominalized complements (NMLZs) have the internal structure of
noun phrases. The arguments of the former verb tend to assume genitive
relationships to the nominalization. Nominalized complements can
occur with articles, case markers, and sometimes even a plural marker.
A nominalized PVC in Fijian is shown in (32).
(32) au
1s
aa raica [a 'e-na va'a-.mate-i a pua'a]
PT see [ART Class-3s make-dead-PASS ART pig]
'I watched the pig's being killed.' Dixon (1988), 277
Participial complements (PARTs) are adjectival or adverbial forms
of verbs, which function as attributive adjectives to their subject NP.In
PV constructions, the object of perception is modi ed by the participle
as illustrated in the participial PVC in Classical Greek in example (33).
(33) E^de auten [pauousan/
saw.3s she(ACC) [stop(PART.PRES.f.s.ACC)/
pausasan]
stop(PART.AOR.f.s.ACC)]
`He saw her stopping/ stop.' Noonan (1985), 63
Adverbial participles as PVCs, which are invariant and do not change
for e.g. number, occur in Catalan:
(34) Vaig veure la dona/ les dones passant per
I.go see(INF) the woman/ the women go(PART) through
la duana
ART customs
`I saw the woman/ the women go through customs.'
Noonan (1985), 64
Table 6 summarizes the six complementtypes established by Noonan
(1985). The complement types are characterized in relation to the
subject-predicate relation, the range of in ectional categories and the
word class of the predicate.
In sum, I have shown two major issues involved in the structural
typology of PVCs: the role of complementizers and the variety of complement
structures. Complementizers can play a role in distinguishing
event denoting from proposition denoting PVCs, especially, when