Strengthening the PRO hypothesis
By: Lisa A. Reed
Series: Studies in generative grammar -- v. 110; Studies in generative grammar -- v. 110.
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9781614510420; 9781614510413
Subjects: Comparative and general Grammar; Control (Linguistics); Infinitival constructions; Pragmatics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-379) and index.
Table of contents: title: On the historical development of PRO approaches to control --; title: Approaches to control in transformational grammar --; title: Chomsky (1965) and Rosenbaum (1967) : Lexical NP Deletion --; title: Postal (1968a, 1970) : the "Doom" pronoun --; title: Chomsky & Lasnik (1977) : R-indexing, "Rules of Control, " and opaque domains --; title: Chomsky (1980) : constraints on anaphoric relations, the case filter, and elaborated rules of control --; title: Approaches to control within the Government-Binding theory --; title: Chomsky (1981a, 1982) : Theta theory and Binding theory --; title: Manzini (1983) : PRO is unambiguously an anaphor --; title: Bouchard (1984) : PRO is ambiguously an anaphor and a pronoun --; title: Lasnik (1992) : evidence that PRO is licensed by a lack government and is identified by a separate theory of control --; title: On control into NP : Williams (1985) --; title: On Minimalist approaches to control --; title: On the Minimalist rejection of a binding-theoretic approach to the distribution of PRO --; title: Case-theoretic approaches to PRO --; title: Null case approaches to PRO --; title: PRO as a caseless NP --; title: On structural case approaches to PRO --; title: Summary --; title: Movement and implicit argument approaches to control --; title: Movement theories of control --; title: Implicit argument approaches to control --; title: On some representative model-theoretic approaches to control --; title: On some representative argument and conceptual approaches to control --; title: Sag & Pollard (1991) : an argument structure approach to control --; title: Jackendoff & Culicover (2003) : a conceptual structure approach to control --; title: Summary --; title: A critical look at some Standard arguments in favor of PRO --; title: Remotivating a PRO approach to control --; title: The syntax of control --; title: On the reference of PRO --; title: On the need to recognize syntactic influences on controller resolution --; title: On the respective roles of syntax and semantics in controller resolution --; title: Summary --; title: On an unexpected gap in the distribution of PRO --; title: What are facts, eventualities, and propositions? --; title: Explaining the gap in simple control (ECM/small clause) complementation --; title: Conclusions ---- Bibliography-- Index.