Movement Theory of Control
Editors
| University of Maryland
| Harvard University
Natural languages offer many examples of “displacement,” i.e. constructions in which a non-local expression is critical for some grammatical end. Two central examples include phenomena such as raising and passive on the one hand, and control on the other. Though each phenomenon is an example of displacement, they have been theoretically distinguished. Movement rules have generated the former and formally very different construal rules, the latter. The Movement Theory of Control challenges this differentiation and argues that the operations that generate the two constructions are the same, the differences arising from the positions through which the displaced elements are moved. In the context of the Minimalist Program, reducing the class of basic operations is methodologically prized. This volume is a collection of original papers that argue for this approach to control on theoretical and empirical grounds as well. The papers also develop and constrain the movement theory to account for novel phenomena from a variety of languages.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 154] 2010. vii, 330 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
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vii
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1–42
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Part I. Expanding the movement analysis of control
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43–146
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45–66
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67–88
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89–118
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119–146
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Part II. Unexplored control phenomena
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147–266
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149–182
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183–210
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211–244
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245–266
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Part III. Beyond control
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267–328
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269–298
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299–328
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General