Control in Generative Grammar - A Research Companion

Informationen zum Autor Idan Landau is an Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Zusammenfassung This is the first comprehensive survey of control theory! covering the results of five decades of research in generative grammar. Among the issues discussed are: the distinction between raising and control! syntactic interactions with case! lexical determination of the controller! and phenomena like partial and implicit control. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Idan Landau, Idan (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Landau, Landau Idan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781107602687
• ISBN: 978-1-107-60268-7
• No. of pages: 297
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology