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Strengthening the PRO hypothesis / Lisa A. Reed.

Title
Strengthening the PRO hypothesis / Lisa A. Reed.
Author
Reed, Lisa A., 1963-
Publication
Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2014.

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Description
x, 385 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Studies in generative grammar, 0167-4331 ; v. 110
Uniform Title
Studies in generative grammar ; v. 110.
Subject
  • Control (Linguistics)
  • Generative Syntax
  • Grammar, Comparative and general
  • Grammar, Comparative and general > Infinitival constructions
  • Grammar, Comparative and general > Infinitival constructions
  • Grammar, Comparative and general
  • Kontrolle
  • PRO-Element
  • Pragmatics
  • Pragmatics
  • Semantik
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-379) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 9781614510420
  • 1614510423
  • 9781614510413 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2013387482