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.