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 …

A series of recent works (Chomsky 2021, Chomsky et al. 2023, Chomsky 2024) offers a
novel theory of Obligatory Control (OC), based on the operation Form Copy (FC), which …

This Elements presents the major findings and theoretical advances in the area of Control.
We describe the different types of control (complement, adjunct, obligatory, nonobligatory) …

–LP: matrix (implicit) agent controls embedded understood agent (7a).–CC: embedded
(implicit) agent controls matrix understood agent (7b).–BC: embedded overt agent controls …

A range of languages allow constructions in which an embedded object is promoted to
matrix subject, a phenomenon we refer to as LONG OBJECT PROMOTION (LOP). In …

In Wolof, control clauses differ in whether the embedded prosubject is pronounced. In some
control clauses, the subject is phonologically null, as expected, while it is an overt pronoun …

In Serbian, complements of directive and desiderative predicates can be finite clauses
headed by da. da-clauses also serve as matrix clauses conveying directives or expressing …

I propose a version of the Movement Theory of Control (Hornstein, 1999, et seq.) according
to which a lone determiner can be merged in a thematic position in the embedded clause …

–LP: matrix (implicit) agent controls embedded understood agent (7a).–CC: embedded
(implicit) agent controls matrix understood agent (7b).–BC: embedded overt agent controls …

An A-dependency is usually characterised in terms of a relationship between different
syntactic positions that is based on case, agreement, θ-role assignment, or binding. This …