This book investigates the phenomenon of control structures, configurations in which the subject of the embedded clause is missing and is construed as coreferential with the subject of the embedding clause (e.g. John wanted to leave). It draws on data from English, Mandarin Chinese, and Modern Greek to investigate the relationship that control bears both to restructuring - the phenomenon whereby some apparently biclausal structures behave as though they constitute just one clause - and to the meanings of the embedding predicates that participate in these structures. Thomas Grano argues that restructuring is cross-linguistically pervasive and that, by virtue of its co-occurrence with some control predicates but not others, it serves as evidence for a basic division within the class of complement control structures. This division is connected to how the semantics of the control predicate interacts with general principles of clausal architecture and of the syntax-semantics interface. His findings have general implications both for clausal structure and for the relationship between form and meaning in natural language.
| ISBN: | 9780198703938 |
| Publication date: | 26th March 2015 |
| Author: | Thomas Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Indiana University, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Indiana University, Grano |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 260 pages |
| Series: | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics |
| Genres: |
Grammar, syntax and morphology Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics |
This book investigates the phenomenon of control structures, configurations in which the subject of the embedded clause is missing and is construed as coreferential with the subject of the embedding clause (e.g. John wanted to leave). It draws on data from English, Mandarin Chinese, and Modern Greek to investigate the relationship that control bears both to restructuring - the phenomenon whereby some apparently biclausal structures behave as though they constitute just one clause - and to the meanings of the embedding predicates that participate in these structures. Thomas Grano argues that restructuring is cross-linguistically pervasive and that, by virtue of its co-occurrence with some control predicates but not others, it serves as evidence for a basic division within the class of complement control structures. This division is connected to how the semantics of the control predicate interacts with general principles of clausal architecture and of the syntax-semantics interface. His findings have general implications both for clausal structure and for the relationship between form and meaning in natural language.
Control and Restructuring features in the following genres: Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
Control and Restructuring is available in Hardback, Paperback
Control and Restructuring was written by Thomas Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Indiana University, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Indiana University, Grano and published by Oxford University Press
Control and Restructuring has 260 pages
Yes it is part of Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics series