ON THE DERIVATION OF DUTCH BARE INFINITIVES AFTER PERCEPTION VERBS

In this article the author investigates possible analyses of Dutch sentences of the type Ik %agjan /open (Ί saw John run'). A number of arguments are adduced against four analyses that have been proposed in transformational grammar, viz. the Equi analysis, the nonsentential analysis, the bare S analysis and the Subject-to-Object Raising analysis. The author then argues that only an analysis in terms of Verb Raising is satisfactory.