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Control as Movement (Hardcover)
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Control as Movement (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
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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 goes against the
traditional view that such sentences involve not movement, but
binding, and analogizes control to raising, albeit with one
important distinction: whereas the target of movement in control
structures is a theta position, in raising it is a non-theta
position; however the grammatical procedures underlying the two
constructions are the same. This book presents the main arguments
for MTC and shows it to have many theoretical advantages, the
biggest being that it reduces the kinds of grammatical operations
that the grammar allows, an important advantage in a minimalist
setting. It also addresses the main arguments against MTC, using
examples from control shift, adjunct control, and the control
structure of 'promise', showing MTC to be conceptually,
theoretically, and empirically superior to other approaches.
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