Control and grammar.

LARSON, RICHARD K., SABINE IATRIDOU, UTPAL LAHIRI and JAMES HIGGINBOTHAM (eds.).

ISBN 10: 0792316924 / ISBN 13: 9780792316923

Published by Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992

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Orig. boards (hardcover) xx,334 pp.; 23 cm. - "Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy ; v. 48" Text in English (previous owner's name at top of title page) Otherwise as new. Price when new EUR 174,95. Chiefly papers presented at a workshop held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mar. 1989. 800g. Seller Inventory # 21595

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Title: Control and grammar.

Publisher: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: Hardcover

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Synopsis:

The articles in this volume grew from papers presented at the workshop on control held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 1989. The work of the various authors comes at a moment in linguistic theory that is notable for two developments. First, there has been increasing involvement of syntactic theory in semantics and of semantic theory in syntax, with the result that the sorting of facts into syntactic and semantic has become a more complex and theory-laden affair. Second, there has been an enormous growth both in the breadth and depth of studies in languages other than English. Both of these develop­ ments have left their mark on the authors, directly and indirectly. They have also been responsible for the shifts that have given the key terminology its present range of application. In this introduction we discuss the background to the issues that were particularly prominent both at the workshop and in the authors' final drafts. We also com­ ment on the spirit of inquiry that they represent. Our goal is to provide some orientation to the specific contents of the essays and to supply material for reflection on a set of problems that will doubtless develop and deepen as rapidly in the foreseeable future as they have in the recent past.

Synopsis:

The grammatical phenomenon of "control" subsumes a variety of cases where an understood argument of a complement or adjunct clause is related to an explicit element occurring elsewhere in the sentence. The control phenomenon, though familiar from many languages, and widely discussed, has remained a persistent and controversial topic in grammatical analysis. This volume presents nine new, theoretical studies of control. The authors explore the subject matter across a range of languages and constructions, in several different frameworks, and from a variety of perspectives, including syntax, semantics, psycholinguistics and historical lingustics. The articles in this collection offer a stimulating introduction to the spectrum of issues in control theory and their bearing on technical linguistics today.