| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Studies in natural language and linguistic theory ; 71 |
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Studies in natural language and linguistic theory ; 71.
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| Contents |
Front Matter; Looking Out Over the Horizon; Raising in DP Revisited; The Late Development of Raising: What Children Seem to Think about Seem; Raising of Major Arguments in Korean (and Japanese); Not Really ECM, not Exactly Control: The 'Quasi-ECM' Construction in Greek; Control in Modern Greek: It's Another Good Move; Finiteness and Control in Greek; Moving Forward with Romanian Backward Control and Raising; Agreement and Flotation in Partial and Inverse Partial Control Configurations; Null Subjects in Brazilian Portuguese and Finnish: They are not Derived by Movement |
| Summary |
Raising and control have figured in every comprehensive model of syntax for forty years. Recent renewed attention to them makes this collection a timely one. The contributions, representing some of the most exciting recent work, address many fundamental research questions. What beside the canonical constructions might be subject to raising or control analyses? What constructions traditionally treated as raising or control might not actually be so? What classes of control must be recognized? How do tense, agreement, or clausal completeness figure in their distribution? The chapters address thes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Control (Linguistics)
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Control (Linguistics)
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Davies, William D., 1954-2017
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Dubinsky, Stanley, 1952-
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| ISBN |
9781402061769 |
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1402061765 |
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