The subject of nonfinite clauses is often missing, and yet is understood to refer to some
linguistic or contextual referent (eg'Bill preferred __ to remain silent'is understood as' Bill …

This book describes and systematizes all aspects of the grammar of Russian: the patterns of
orthography, sounds, inflection, syntax, tense-aspect-mood, word order, and intonation. It is …

Abstract Intensive research on Obligatory Control (OC) in the past 2 decades has revealed a
rich crosslinguistic terrain of deviations from the classical format. Five types of noncanonical …

The unpronounced subject of infinitives, PRO, bears standard case, which is reflected on
agreeing predicative elements in languages like Russian, Icelandic, Ancient Greek, etc. This …

Deriving the distribution of PRO in a principled manner is a central task for the theory of
control. Traditionally, Case has been identified as the key to this problem: PRO was argued …

Case is a conjectured syntactic property of noun phrases that accounts for aspects of their
distribution and form that do not otherwise follow from their PF and LF content (Chomsky …

This paper presents unusual patterns in raising and control and offers a syntactic account
which would validate such patterns. On the empirical side, we present evidence for …

This paper addresses the question of whether 'mainclause infinitival datives' in Russian
should be analyzed as oblique or 'quirky'subjects, in contrast to another type of subject-like …

We argue that the infinitival complements of subject-control and subject-tosubject raising
verbs in Hungarian can have overt nominative subjects. The infinitival subject status of these …

Although current generative theory acknowledges the existence of argument structure (AS),
it nevertheless con tinues to assume that syntax is the primary computational system, which …