This paper attempts to offer a plausible syntactic structure of the complement of the perception verb po- 'see' from Korean and English. The core of the proposals is that the perception verb complement is an incomplete clause, lower than TP and higher than vP, which is syntactically realized as an Event Phrase, and that this EventP contains a Voice Phrase. It is also suggested that the EventP involves an event operator, which is then controlled by the event argument assigned by the matrix perception verb, thereby accounting for the fact that the event time is simultaneous with the perception time. It will be shown that the current proposals can well account for various syntactic and semantic properties of the perception verb complements.

Hee-Rahk Chae. 2000. Complements vs. Adjuncts (in Korean). Studies in Modern Grammar 19, 69-85. For a correct analysis of many grammatical phenomena, we have to figure out whether a given phrase is a complement or an adjunct of the head concerned. There are many criteria/tests to be used in determining the identity of the phrase. However, there are no syntactic criteria to rely on in Korean, which is a pro-drop language. We have only some semantic criteria, which are not always helpful in analyzing actual data. In the face of these difficulties, we propose a set of heuristic assumptions, which we think facilitate the distinction between complements and adjuncts. We will show our point with reference to the analyses of the -(u)lo and -ey-marked expressions, and the -ul/lul-marked adverbial nominals in Korean.