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 …

Abstract Landau (2000) distinguishes between P (artial) C (ontrol) and E (xhaustive) C
(ontrol): PC predicates like hope admit a subset relation between controller and controllee …

This dissertation explores the relation between the notion of subjecthood and syntactic
ergativity through the lens of West Circassian (or Adyghe; of the Northwest Caucasian …

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 …

The study of focalization processes, particularly as related to displacement or syntactic
movement, is important for current syntactic theorizing because it provides a unique …

This article considers the availability of partial Control in European Portuguese, French,
Spanish and Italian and argues that many apparent examples of partial Control actually …

This paper proposes that cross-linguistic differences in the distribution of subjects in raising
constructions follow from whether or not there are phase boundaries between matrix T and …

This paper investigates the prepositional nature of non-finite verbal forms. Assuming well-
known observations that relate the categories P and V on the one hand (see Chomsky 1970 …

Modern generative linguistic theory furnishes a variety of general principles that appear to
be at work in the grammar of all the world's languages. One of the most basic and …

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 …