Strengthening the PRO hypothesis

Reed, Lisa A. (1963-....)

Strengthening the PRO hypothesis [Texte imprimé] / Lisa A. Reed - Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2014 - 1 vol. (X-385 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm - Studies in generative grammar ; 110 . - Studies in generative grammar (Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin) .

Bibliogr. p. 371-379

On the historical development of PRO approaches to control -- Approaches to control in transformational grammar -- Chomsky (1965) and Rosenbaum (1967) : Lexical NP Deletion -- Postal (1968a, 1970) : the "Doom" pronoun -- Chomsky & Lasnik (1977) : R-indexing, "Rules of Control, " and opaque domains -- Chomsky (1980) : constraints on anaphoric relations, the case filter, and elaborated rules of control -- Approaches to control within the Government-Binding theory -- Chomsky (1981a, 1982) : Theta theory and Binding theory -- Manzini (1983) : PRO is unambiguously an anaphor -- Bouchard (1984) : PRO is ambiguously an anaphor and a pronoun -- Lasnik (1992) : evidence that PRO is licensed by a lack government and is identified by a separate theory of control -- On control into NP : Williams (1985) -- On Minimalist approaches to control -- On the Minimalist rejection of a binding-theoretic approach to the distribution of PRO -- Case-theoretic approaches to PRO -- Null case approaches to PRO -- PRO as a caseless NP -- On structural case approaches to PRO -- Summary -- Movement and implicit argument approaches to control -- Movement theories of control -- Implicit argument approaches to control -- On some representative model-theoretic approaches to control -- On some representative argument and conceptual approaches to control -- Sag & Pollard (1991) : an argument structure approach to control -- Jackendoff & Culicover (2003) : a conceptual structure approach to control -- Summary -- A critical look at some Standard arguments in favor of PRO -- Remotivating a PRO approach to control -- The syntax of control -- On the reference of PRO -- On the need to recognize syntactic influences on controller resolution -- On the respective roles of syntax and semantics in controller resolution -- Summary -- On an unexpected gap in the distribution of PRO -- What are facts, eventualities, and propositions? -- Explaining the gap in simple control (ECM/small clause) complementation -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index

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Control (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general / Infinitival constructions Grammar, Comparative and general Pragmatics

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