Control as movement /

"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 r...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Boeckx, Cedric
Other Authors:	Hornstein, Norbert, Nunes, Jairo
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Series:	Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 126.
Subjects:	Control (Linguistics) Generative grammar. Grammar, Comparative and general > Sentences. Grammar, Comparative and general > Word order. Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Online Access:	Cover image