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Control as Movement (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)
Control as Movement - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Author: Cedric Boeckx, Norbert Hornstein, Jairo Nunes
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 targ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781107672062
ISBN-10: 1107672066
Publication Date: 4/17/2014
Pages: 274
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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