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two in nitive (INF) PVC types: NI-PVC and to-PVC. The progressive
counterpart of the NI-PVC, the ing-PVC, is also listed as a complement
of the INF type. Participial adjunct clauses (PARTs) were excluded
from the investigation of PVCs in section 1.1. Furthermore, there is
a nominalized (NMLZ) PVC, PNOM. The semantic interpretation as
either proposition denoting or event denoting allows a hierarchical
ordering of the PVC types ranking from IND to NMLZ. The INF complement
type includes a proposition denoting as well as two event
denoting subtypes: the marked to-PVC denotes a proposition while
the unmarked NI-PVC and its progressive counterpart, the ing-PVC,
refer to an event. Proposition and event denoting PVC types
Table 8. English PVCs and the typology of complementation
Complement types PVC types Semantic types know active PVs
IND that-PVC proposition (event) + -
SUB |
PARA |
INF to-PVC proposition + -
NI-PVC event - +
ing-PVC event - +
NMLZ PNOM event - +
are in complementary distribution regarding two of the non-PV matrix
predicates that were investigated in section 2, know and active PVs like
watch. The proposition denoting PVC types can occur with know as
a matrix predicate, but not with active PVs like watch, while event
denoting PVC types can be embedded by active PVs but not by know.