Control As Movement

Informationen zum Autor Cedrick Boeckx is Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA), and a member of the Center for Theoretical Linguistics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Klappentext Presents the main arguments for and against the Movement Theory of Control. Zusammenfassung The Movement Theory of Control (MTC) makes one major claim: that control relations in sentences like 'John wants to leave' are grammatically mediated by movement. This book presents the main arguments for and against MTC and shows it to have many theoretical advantages. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Some historical background; 3. Basic properties of the Movement Theory of Control; 4. Empirical advantages; 5. Empirical challenges and solutions; 6. On non-obligatory control; 7. Some notes on semantic approaches to control; 8. The movement theory of control and the minimalist program.

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• Authors: Cedric Boeckx, Cedric (Universitat Aut-Noma De Barcelona) Boeckx, Cedric (Universitat Autonoma De Barcelona) Boeckx, Cedrick Hornstein Boeckx, Norbert Hornstein, Jairo Nunes
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.08.2010
• EAN: 9780521195454
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19545-4
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics