Non-Canonical Control in a Cross-linguistic Perspective.

• Superior document: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Series ; v.270
• Author: Mucha, Anne.
• TeilnehmendeR: Hartmann, Jutta M.; Trawiński, Beata.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 pages)

Based on empirical generalizations from a wide range of languages, this volume provides insights into cross-linguistic variation in the interplay of different components of control such as the properties of the constituent hosting the controlled subject.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Non-canonical Control in a Cross-linguistic Perspective -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Introduction. Non-canonical control in a cross-linguistic perspective: Introduction to the volume -- 1. Issues in non-canonical control -- 2. Overview of the book -- Part I. Non-canonical control in complement clauses -- Part II. Non-canonical control in adjunct clauses -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part I. Non-canonical control in complement clauses -- Backward control, long distance agree, nominative case and TP/CP transparency -- 1. Aims and goals -- 2. Control and raising in Greek -- 2.1 BC -- 2.2 LDA -- 3. An analysis of LDA -- 4. LDA disrupted -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Agent control in passives in Romanian -- 1. Introduction: Control with agents of passives across languages -- 2. Control with implicit agents of passives in Romanian -- 3. Towards an account: Why some analyses don't work -- 4. Our analysis -- 4.1 On the structure of 'se-passives': Halfway between actives and passives -- 4.2 Control in se-passives -- 4.3 Comparing our account with an alternative analysis of control in Romanian -- 4.4 Summary -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- On the obligatory versus no control split in Korean -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 2.1 Control complementizers -- 2.2 Base and inverse order -- 2.3 The orientation of control complementizers towards attitudinal function -- 2.4 Overt infinitival subjects -- 2.5 Interim summary -- 3. Analysis -- 3.1 The control clause in the inverse order has moved -- 3.2 The OC-NC split -- 4. Open issues -- 4.1 Subject control -- 4.2 Lifting the anti-AUTHOR restriction -- 4.3 Outlook -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Control from inside: Evidence from Japanese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 2.1 Control as force embedding -- 2.2 Partial control -- 2.3 De se.

2.4 Nonbiunique selectional relations -- 2.5 Forces in roots -- 3. Interim summary -- 4. Extension to English -- 4.1 Subject, object and split control -- 4.2 Partial control -- 5. How does the force arise clause-internally? -- 5.1 A force-specific head? -- 5.2 Indexical agreement -- 5.3 Creating a de se/te property -- 6. Associative structure -- 7. Remaining issues and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Control and covert modality in Hungarian: MECs and postverbal-only focus constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. General overview of the data -- 2.1 Postverbal-only focus -- 2.2 Modal existential wh-constructions -- 3. Earlier accounts -- 3.1 Postverbal-only focus -- 3.2 Modal existential wh-constructions -- 3.3 Covert modality -- 3.4 Transparency and clause size -- 3.5 Interim summary -- 4. The proposal -- 4.1 Verb movement and covert modals -- 5. Control and raising MECs in Hungarian -- 5.1 Control vs. raising -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- References -- Part II. Non-canonical control in adjunct clauses -- Event control -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Empirical evidence -- 2.1 Scope: Negation, co-occurrence, coordination -- 2.2 Binding effects -- 2.3 Event control is obligatory control -- 3. Theoretical approach -- 3.1 Basic assumptions of the hybrid theory of control (HTC) -- 3.2 Event control: Technical implementation -- 3.3 Multiple agree -- 3.4 On the distinction between standard PRO and PROe -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Adjunct control and the poverty of the stimulus: Availability vs. evidence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is evidence? -- 2.1 Considerations for the input -- 2.2 Considerations for grammatical competence -- 3. Availability -- 4. Evidence -- 4.1 Direct observation -- 4.2 Generalization from similar structures -- 5. Universal grammar -- 5.1 Role of the input.

5.2 Competence and acquisition -- 5.3 Predictions for the input -- 6. Discussion -- 6.1 Other types of control -- 6.2 Other dependencies -- 6.3 Role of the argument of the poverty of the stimulus -- 6.4 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- The (Null) subject of adjunct infinitives in spoken Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Adjunct control between predication and logophoricity -- 3. The (null) subject of Spanish adjunct infinitives - PRO or pro? -- 4. A corpus study of adjunct infinitives in spoken Spanish -- 4.1 The data -- 4.2 Annotating controller choice for quantitative analysis -- 4.3 Results -- 4.4 Discussion -- 5. Adjunct control in spoken Spanish data - some observations -- 6. Towards an analysis: Discourse linking via C and preference scales for control -- 6.1 The case of null subjects in adjunct infinitives -- 6.2 The case of overt subjects in adjunct infinitives -- 6.3 On differences between types of adjunct infinitives -- 7. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Corpora -- Index.