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Autore |
Reed Lisa A |
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Titolo |
Strengthening the PRO hypothesis / / Lisa A. Reed |
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Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (396 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in generative grammar, , 0167-4331 ; ; volume 110 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Control (Linguistics) |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Infinitival constructions |
Grammar, Comparative and general |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Overview -- Chapter 2. On the historical development of PRO approaches to Control -- Chapter 3. Movement and implicit argument approaches to Control -- Chapter 4. A critical look at some standard arguments in favor of PRO -- Chapter 5. Remotivating a PRO approach to Control -- Chapter 6. The syntax of Control -- Chapter 7. On the reference of PRO -- Chapter 8. On an unexpected gap in the distribution of PRO -- Chapter 9. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The syntax of Control structures remains a topic of heated debate: Standard generative treatments continue to analyze them in terms of PRO, a hypothesis challenged in alternative syntactic frameworks, semantic circles, and even within the generative tradition itself. This book: (a) examines empirical paradigms currently assumed to favor a PRO approach over competing theories, demonstrating that alternative approaches offer equally plausible treatments of these facts; (b) develops five novel arguments amenable to analysis only within a PRO approach; (c) puts forth a radically revised PRO approach to Control according to which PRO continues to be analyzed as a non-expletive nominal, but one lacking phi- and Case features in the computational component. Contra standard theory, PRO is argued to never undergo movement to a position even as high as the first NegP that dominates |
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its initial merge position. Furthermore, Control complements are shown to take the form of such diverse categories as CP, IP, vP and VP; and (d) considers how a syntactically phi-featureless noun comes to be understood to bear phi-features, as well as how tense limits PRO's distribution in a here-to-fore unnoticed fashion. |
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