Control as Movement

by Jairo Nunes, Cedric Boeckx, Norbert Hornstein

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521195454
• ISBN13: 9780521195454
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"