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Control in generative grammar [electronic resource] : a research companion / Idan Landau

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Landau, Idan
Published
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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©2013
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1 online resource ( x, 287 pages)
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.1.A historical sketch: the rise and fall of Equi-NP Deletion -- 1.2.Raising-control contrasts -- 1.2.1.Interpretive contrasts -- 1.2.2.Structural contrasts -- 1.3.The OC signature -- 1.4.Bogus criteria for OC or NOC -- 1.5.Configurations of OC and NOC -- 1.6.Are there nonfinite NOC complements? -- 2.1.Predication -- 2.2.Binding -- 2.3.Lexical-functional grammar -- 2.4.A-movement -- 2.5.Agree -- 3.1.Infinitives are clausal (hence, contain a subject) -- 3.2.Syntactic evidence for PRO -- 4.1.Finiteness ingredients -- 4.1.1.The naive years (only nonfinite control) -- 4.1.2.The crosslinguistic picture: finiteness and control -- 4.1.3.Mood and control -- 4.1.4.Open problems: DP/PRO free alternation -- 4.2.Case marking and case transmission -- 4.3.Is PRO necessarily a subject? -- 4.3.1.Theoretical accounts for the subjecthood of PRO -- 4.3.2.Nonsubject PRO: actor control in Tagalog -- 4.4.Nullness of PRO -- 4.4.1.Control of pronouns and reflexives -- 4.4.2.Backward and copy control -- 4.4.3.Theoretical implications -- 5.1.Controller choice and control shift -- 5.1.1.Theories of controller choice -- 5.1.2.Control shift -- 5.1.3.The Minimal Distance Principle -- 5.2.Partial control -- 5.3.Split control -- 5.4.Implicit control -- 5.4.1.Eliminating Bach's generalization and restating Visser's generalization -- 5.4.2.The representational status of implicit controllers -- 5.5.PRO-gate -- 5.6.Control in DP -- 5.6.1.Evidence for a null subject in DPs -- 5.6.2.Control into DP: PRO or pro? -- 5.6.3.Control inside DP -- 6.1.A quick survey of controlled adjuncts -- 6.2.The mechanism of adjunct OC: predication -- 7.1.The NOC signature -- 7.2.Distance effects and intervention: the failure of structural constraints -- 7.3.Logophoricity in NOC -- 7.4.Topicality in NOC -- 7.5.Interaction and competition.
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9781139061858 (electronic bk.)
9781139612241 (electronic bk.)
1139612247 (electronic bk.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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