Perception verb complements in Akatek, a Mayan language

62 3. PERCEPTION VERB COMPLEMENTS IN ENGLISH
c. John remembered his mother's beautiful singing.
d. John remembered Mary's having bought eggs.
e. ?John remembered her to be friends with everyone.
f. John remembered that Mary bought eggs.
Loose containers taking subject complements are X surprise and X
cause:
(40) a. *Mary buy eggs surprised John/ caused a riot.
b. The farmer slaughtering a pig surprised John/ caused a
riot.
c. *It raining surprised John/ caused a riot.
d. His mother's beautiful singing surprised John/ caused a
riot.
e. Mary's having bought eggs surprised John/ caused a riot.
f. *Her to be friends with everyone surprised John/ caused a
riot.
g. That Mary bought eggs surprised John/ caused a riot.
Obviously, neither naked in nitives nor to-in nitives are prone to occur
with loose containers like X surprise/ cause and remember X. 6 In
addition, ACC-ing complements cannot ll the subject position of X
surprise when the subject of the complement is an expletive it as in
(40-c).
2.3. Others. There are matrix predicates in English that accept
neither PNOMs nor INOMs. First, I consider the verb know, which
was hypothesized above to distinguish event denoting from primarily
proposition denoting PVC types. Second, I take a look at certain
causativeverbs, whichinmany respects exhibit qualities similar to perception
verbs (Gee, 1977; Higginbotham, 1983; Mittwoch, 1990;
Guasti, 1993; Higginbotham, 1994b).
Object complements of know like the that-clause and the to-in nitive
in (41) are interpreted as propositions. In fact, know can only take
complements that are proposition denoting. Hence, know cannot
embed event denoting complement types like naked in nitives and
ACC-ing clauses (42). 7 Also, the two types of nominalizations dealt
6 Note that remember accepts to-in nitives in raising constructions:
(i) John remembered to buy eggs.
7 Except for a usage found mainly in British English, which is restricted to the
perfective aspect form have known and optionally allows the insertion of to (Quirk
et al., 1985):