Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

PREDICTING SYNTAX FROM SEMANTICS 517

of the "ACC-ing" complement form to the perception interpretation of
remember (analogous to its occurrence with direct perception verbs, e.g.
John saw Fred/him leaving the party early) and that-clauses to the knowl­
edge and belief readings. We thus arrive at the correct complement forms
starting from the decomposed semantic representation of remember. The
general stages of the analysis are summarized in Figure 2; the actual
analysis of remember is summarized in Figure 3.

Figure 2: Stages in analysis from semantic representation to complement

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Figure 3: The analysis of remember