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Control and Restructuring (Paperback)
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Control and Restructuring (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 56
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This book investigates the phenomenon of control structures,
configurations in which the subject of the embedded clause is
missing and is construed as coreferential with the subject of the
embedding clause (e.g. John wanted to leave). It draws on data from
English, Mandarin Chinese, and Modern Greek to investigate the
relationship that control bears both to restructuring - the
phenomenon whereby some apparently biclausal structures behave as
though they constitute just one clause - and to the meanings of the
embedding predicates that participate in these structures. Thomas
Grano argues that restructuring is cross-linguistically pervasive
and that, by virtue of its co-occurrence with some control
predicates but not others, it serves as evidence for a basic
division within the class of complement control structures. This
division is connected to how the semantics of the control predicate
interacts with general principles of clausal architecture and of
the syntax-semantics interface. His findings have general
implications both for clausal structure and for the relationship
between form and meaning in natural language.
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