Aspectual distinctions under direct perception predicates: the interaction between aspect and the morphological form of the dependent predicate

This contribution provides a first in-depth investigation of the tense/aspect relation in the non-finite verbal domain, by restricting the empirical ground to a specific syntactic environment, i.e. non-finite verbal forms selected by direct perception predicates, and to three Indo-European languages, i.e. Ancient Greek, Latin and Middle Irish. The aim is to determine which morpho-syntactic strategies encode the aspectual values in the three languages and, in turn, to establish whether similar aspectual values occur in all three languages.