Elements of Control - Structure and Meaning in Infinitival Constructions

Book 32 of 60: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Landau Idan

ISBN 10: 0792366204 ISBN 13: 9780792366201

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht - Boston - London, 2000

Language: English

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IX, 215 pp., Kluwer Academic Publishers - 2000 - Dordrecht. Yellow hardcover with photoprint, in good condition. Ex. of the Ghent University Library with the usual stamps, labels and numbers. No marks inside the book. A very good copy.

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Elements of Control - Structure and Meaning in Infinitival Constructions

Publisher

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht - Boston - London

Publication Date

2000

Language

English

ISBN 10

0792366204

ISBN 13

9780792366201

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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Very Good

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This book offers a new outlook on the derivation and interpretation of control constructions. Bringing together novel data and observations, it argues that Obligatory Control comes in two varieties: Exhaustive or Partial Control, the latter obtaining when PRO properly includes the controller. This distinction, arguably universal, is tightly linked to the tense specification of the infinitive. Non-Obligatory Control, on the other hand, is structurally conditioned, obtaining only in VP-external infinitives. A detailed investigation of how control interacts with Super-Equi constructions and psychological predicates sheds new light on issues such as extraposition, argument structure, and semantic selection.
This book clears up some common misconceptions about the nature of control, as well as sharpening the empirical challenges that face any comprehensive theory in this domain. Regardless of theoretical framework, scholars of syntax and semantics interested in these topics, will find this book a major contribution to the field.

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Idan Landau is an Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben Gurion University, Israel.

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