Perception verb complements in Akatek, a Mayan language

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Taking up the latter claim, I follow up four speci c hypotheses for
PVCs in English:
1. Hypothesis 1
NI-PVCs, ing-PVCs, and PNOMs are exclusively event denoting.
2. Hypothesis 2
To-PVCs are exclusively proposition denoting.
3. Hypothesis 3
That-PVCs are primarily proposition denoting, but under special
conditions that-PVCs can also be event denoting.
4. Hypothesis 4
Only proposition denoting PVCtypes can alternatively be embedded
by the matrix predicate know.
The semantic type attributed to a complementtype depends on the
one hand on the type of the complement, more speci cally on the complement's
structural and semantic properties, and on the other hand on
the kind of matrix predicate it occurs with. The abovehypotheses refer
explicitly to English PVCs. If I speak of the complementtypes in non-
PV environments, I do not refer to them as PVCs, but as that-clauses,
to-in nitives, ACC-ing clauses and NI-clauses. PNOMs are always referred
to as PNOMs. INOMs cannot occur with PVs and therefore do
not qualify as PVCs. The kind of typology pursued in this study is
aimed at discovering clusters of interrelated features. Therefore, one
of my secondary goals is to investigate alternative environments of the
designated complement types. In other words, what is the variety of
matrix predicates each complementtype can occur with? In chapter 5,
I raise the same question regarding PVC types in Akatek, so that both
results can be compared.
2. Matrix predicates
Typologists are interested in discovering correlations between features.
In other words, they are not only concerned with a single construction
that has a single function, but extend their endeavours to
both functional and constructional variation. Therefore, besides looking
at the structural and semantic variety ofPVCs, I include in this
study the types of matrix predicates these complementtypes can occur
with. The complementtypes whichhave been selected for characterization
above, i.e. that-clauses, to-in nitives, INOMs, PNOMs, ACC-ing
clauses and NI-clauses, can also occur with non-PV matrix predicates.
It is important to realize that the meaning of a complement also depends
on the type of matrix predicate. Therefore, it is necessary to