[HPSG-L] Is *remind* an object control verb

[Emily M. Bender]

As in: "This sign reminds not to litter"?  Ew, no.

Emily

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Tibor Kiss <tibor at linguistics.rub.de>
wrote:

> Dear native speakers of English on this list,
>
> I would like to know whether *remind*, when used with a non-finite
> complement, should be analysed as a object control verb.
>
> OALD assumes (implicitly, by paraphrase) that *remind*, when used with an
> infinitive, is an object control verb (INFLUENCE-type in PS 1994):
>
> (1) remind someone_i [PRO_i to do something]
>
> I am keen to know whether *remind*+infinitive could be used as a
> non-control-verb.
>
> Thanks
>
> T.
>
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