The Movement Theory of Control (MTC) makes one major claim: that control relations in
sentences like'John wants to leave'are grammatically mediated by movement. This goes …

This book investigates the phenomenon of control structures, configurations in which the
subject of the embedded clause is missing and is construed as coreferential with the subject …

A bound pronoun in the subject position of a finite embedded clause renders the clause
boundary relatively transparent to relations ordinarily confined to monoclausal, control, and …

Control Phenomena Page 1 Control Phenomena Eric Potsdam and Youssef A. Haddad
University of Florida, USA 1 Introduction 2 The OC/NOC distinction 3 The empirical …

Expletive Negation is widespread in human languages. Although many semantic, pragmatic
and syntactic hypotheses about it have been advanced, it still remains puzzling. Two …

Although we owe the term 'control'to a linguist working in the generative grammar framework
(Postal 1970), and the great majority of what has been written on this topic has been …

This is the first part of a two‐part article that reviews a number of the current debates
regarding raising and control constructions. The issues addressed in this part include the …

Aquesta tesi gira a l'entorn del fenomen de l'ascens dels clítics (AC) i la correlació que
estableix amb la reestructuració i el control. Els tres objectius principals són: delimitar l'abast …

German disallows embedded infinitival (wh-) interrogatives. Although cross-linguistic
comparison has not been undertaken to any broader extent, most accounts attribute this gap …

In this paper I propose a novel account of the obligatory silence of PRO, based on the notion
of defective goal in Roberts (2010). While languages differ with respect to the availability of …