To browse Academia. Klaus-Uwe Panther. Lilian Guerrero. John R te Velde. Vikki Janke. The aim of this paper is to develop a representation of control that does not require a PRO-subject.
The resulting theory makes the same predictions as one based on PRO, yet avoids dependence on this ill-defined empty category. I then concentrate on Icelandic, tackling agreement phenomena in infinitival clauses. Again no PRO is necessary to cater for the data, which receive a uniform account using the mechanism outlined in the first half of the paper.
Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics. Pilar P. Szabolcsi , shows that there are languages where control and raising infinitives have overt subjects, in compliance with 1 : 1 a. The overt subjects of control complements can only be pronouns. The overt subjects of raising complements can be pronouns or lexical DPs. Drawing on data from European Portuguese as well as Spanish and Italian we show that the evidence underlying 1 constitutes a strong case in favor of a non-raising approach to obligatory control.
Relying on the observation that many consistent Null Subject Languages NSL allow for explicit subjects in raising and control complements, we develop an account that aims to capture the association between this phenomenon and the null subject property.
The present investigation targets the phenomenon commonly called control. Many languages including German and Polish employ non-finite clauses besides finite clauses as propositional complements.
