Screen LibraryStrengthening the PRO hypothesis /
Generative theory has long sought to capture the syntax of Control, questioning whether the complement clause contains a syntactically projected thematic subject, whether such an argument undergoes displacement and, if so, where and why, and what role semantics may play. This book continues in this...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Studies in generative grammar [sgg];
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| Summary: |
Generative theory has long sought to capture the syntax of Control, questioning whether the complement clause contains a syntactically projected thematic subject, whether such an argument undergoes displacement and, if so, where and why, and what role semantics may play. This book continues in this tradition, critically examining paradigms erroneously assumed to favor PRO analyses over Movement and implicit argument accounts. It offers novel data amenable to analysis only within a PRO approach but one radically different from its predecessors in form and interpretation. |
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1 online resource(x,385pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9781614510413 |
| Index Number: | P299 |
| CLC: | H04 |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Overview -- Chapter 2. On the historical development of PRO approaches to Control -- Chapter 3. Movement and implicit argument approaches to Control -- Chapter 4. A critical look at some standard arguments in favor of PRO -- Chapter 5. Remotivating a PRO approach to Control -- Chapter 6. The syntax of Control -- Chapter 7. On the reference of PRO -- Chapter 8. On an unexpected gap in the distribution of PRO -- Chapter 9. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index. |