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- Title
On Partial Control and Parasitic PC Effects.
- Authors
Wotlps, Jacek; Snarska, Anna
- Abstract
This paper deals with the issue of Partial Control (PC), a phenomenon widely discussed in syntactic literature since (Landau 2000). PC constitutes a case of mismatch in semantic number between the controller (singular) and PRO (plural, including the reference set of the controller). We present a number of current proposals concerning the mechanics of PC set against the background of competition between the movement-based and Agree-based theories of control. In final sections we present new data from English and Polish showing Parasitic Partial Control (PPC), where a PC reading within the adjunct infinitive is conditioned by a PC reading in the complement infinitive clause. We believe that it is less problematic for movement-base control to obtain the PPC effect.
- Subjects
INFINITIVE (Grammar); 20TH century English poetry; LITERATURE; PHILOLOGY; CLAUSES (Grammar); ENGLISH people
- Publication
SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 2008, Vol 5, Issue 1, p42
- ISSN
1336-782X
- Publication type
Article