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Author Landau, Idan, author.

Title A two-tiered theory of control / Idan Landau.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (x, 114 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Linguistic inquiry monographs
Linguistic inquiry monographs.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-110) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Agree model : fundamentals -- A new proposal: predication vs. logophoric anchoring -- Broadening the empirical basis of the two-tiered theory of control -- Further consequences of the two-tiered theory of control -- Conclusion.
Summary "This book revives and reinterprets a persistent intuition running through much of the classical work: that the unitary appearance of Obligatory Control into complements conceals an underlying duality of structure and mechanism. Idan Landau argues that control complements divide into two types: In attitude contexts, control is established by logophoric anchoring, while non-attitude contexts it boils down to predication. The distinction is also syntactically represented: Logophoric complements are constructed as a second tier above predicative complements. The theory derives the obligatory de se reading of PRO as a special kind of de re attitude without ascribing any inherent feature to PRO. At the same time, it provides a principled explanation, based on feature transmission, for the agreement properties of PRO, which are stipulated on competing semantic accounts. Finally, it derives a striking universal asymmetry: the fact that agreement on the embedded verb blocks control in attitude contexts but not in non-attitude contexts. This book is unique in being firmly grounded in both the formal semantic and the syntactic studies of control, offering an integrated view that will appeal to scholars in both areas. By bringing to bear current sophisticated grammatical analyses, it offers new insights into the classical problems of control theory"--MIT CogNet.
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Language English.
Subject Control (Linguistics)
Control (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrases.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Sentence particles.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Sentence particles.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Landau, Idan. Two-tiered theory of control 9780262028851 (DLC) 2014042765 (OCoLC)897401685
ISBN 9780262327251 (electronic book)
0262327252 (electronic book)
9780262028851 (print)
9780262527361 (print)
0262028859
9780262028851
0262527367
9780262527361