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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782530403321

Autore

Ružicka Rudolf

Titolo

Control in Grammar and Pragmatics [[electronic resource] ] : A cross-linguistic study

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam/Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999

ISBN

1-282-16346-9

9786612163463

90-272-9926-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Collana

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

Disciplina

411

Soggetti

Control (Linguistics)

Grammar, Comparative and general

Pragmatics

Philology & Linguistics

Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTROL IN GRAMMAR AND PRAGMATICS; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Preliminaries; Chapter 3. The theory outlined; Chapter 4. The persuade subclass and cognate ones subject to the general constraint; Chapter 5. The case of promise; Chapter 6. No Choice of Controller; Chapter 7. Reflexive clitic impersonal clauses in Control structures; Chapter 8. "Self-control" with evaluating and attitudinal predicates; Chapter 9. Aspects of control in the "grain problem" and in VP-deletion

Chapter 10. Summary and conclusions With some remaining questionsChapter 11. Turning to the Minimalist Program; Notes; References; Subject index; The Series LINGUISTIK AKTUELL/LINGUISTICS TODAY

Sommario/riassunto

The claim that "...pronominals have phonological features only where they must, for some reason", is strongly supported by the occurrence of the null pronoun PRO as coined and introduced by Noam Chomsky. How reference of PRO is determined is the main subject of control theory, the subsystem of core grammar to which this study is



dedicated. Chomsky has not followed up his "natural suggestion that choice of controller is determined by theta roles or other semantic properties of the verb, perhaps pragmatic conditions of some sort."But then, a great many students of control have engaged in exp