30.3370, Books: Control in Generative Grammar: Landau

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Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 11:14:34
From: Louise Bowes [lbowes at cambridge.org]
Subject: Control in Generative Grammar: Landau

 


Title: Control in Generative Grammar 
Subtitle: A Research Companion 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/control-generative-grammar-research-companion?format=PB 


Author: Idan Landau

Paperback: ISBN:  9781107602687 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 31.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107602687 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107602687 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 28.00


Abstract:

Editor’s Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.

The subject of nonfinite clauses is often missing, and yet is understood to
refer to some linguistic or contextual referent (e.g. 'Bill preferred __ to
remain silent' is understood as 'Bill preferred that he himself would remain
silent'). This dependency is the subject matter of control theory. Extensive
linguistic research into control constructions over the past five decades has
unearthed a wealth of empirical findings in dozens of languages. Their proper
classification and analysis, however, have been a matter of continuing debate
within and across different theoretical schools. This comprehensive book pulls
together, for the first time, all the important advances on the topic. Among
the issues discussed are: the distinction between raising and control,
obligatory and nonobligatory control, syntactic interactions with case,
finiteness and nominalization, lexical determination of the controller, and
phenomena like partial and implicit control. The critical discussions in this
work will stimulate students and scholars to further explorations in this
fascinating field.

1. Background; 2. Control theories: a typology; 3. Empirical arguments for
PRO; 4. Predicting the distribution of PRO; 5. The phenomenology of OC; 6.
Adjunct control; 7. Non-obligatory control; 8. Conclusion.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories


Written In: English  (eng)

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