“… See Comorovski (1985), Farkas (1985), Dobrovie‐Sorin (2001), Alboiu (2007); Sevdali and Sheehan (2021) on Romanian; Zec (1987); Nikolić (2020) on Serbo‐Croatrian; Terzi (1992) on Albanian; Iatridou (1988), Terzi (1992, 1997), Varlokosta (1993), Philippaki‐Warburton and Catsimali (1999), Roussou (2001, 2009), Sitaridou (2002, 2007), Spyropoulos (2007), Kapetangianni (2010), Sevdali and Sheehan (2021) on Greek; Krapova and Petkov (1999), Krapova (2001) on Bulgarian; Rivero (1994), Landau (2004) on Balkan languages in general; Darzi (2008), Karimi (2008), Darzi and Motavallian (2010) on Persian; Manzini and Savoia (2018) on Aromanian; ElSadek (2016), Albaty (2019) on Arabic; Akuzawa and Kubota (2020) on Japanese; Vinka (2022) on South Saami. …”
Intensive research on Obligatory Control (OC) in the past 2 decades has revealed a rich crosslinguistic terrain of deviations from the classical format. Five types of noncanonical OC are surveyed here: Finite control, controlled overt pronouns, partial control, proxy control and crossed control. Each one is described and illustrated, paying attention to methodological difficulties in establishing its characteristic empirical signature. We then turn to a critical assessment of leading theoretical accounts of these phenomena, pointing to merits and faults, and indicating how they can be integrated with broader concerns of syntactic theory.
“… See Comorovski (1985), Farkas (1985), Dobrovie‐Sorin (2001), Alboiu (2007); Sevdali and Sheehan (2021) on Romanian; Zec (1987); Nikolić (2020) on Serbo‐Croatrian; Terzi (1992) on Albanian; Iatridou (1988), Terzi (1992, 1997), Varlokosta (1993), Philippaki‐Warburton and Catsimali (1999), Roussou (2001, 2009), Sitaridou (2002, 2007), Spyropoulos (2007), Kapetangianni (2010), Sevdali and Sheehan (2021) on Greek; Krapova and Petkov (1999), Krapova (2001) on Bulgarian; Rivero (1994), Landau (2004) on Balkan languages in general; Darzi (2008), Karimi (2008), Darzi and Motavallian (2010) on Persian; Manzini and Savoia (2018) on Aromanian; ElSadek (2016), Albaty (2019) on Arabic; Akuzawa and Kubota (2020) on Japanese; Vinka (2022) on South Saami. …”
Intensive research on Obligatory Control (OC) in the past 2 decades has revealed a rich crosslinguistic terrain of deviations from the classical format. Five types of noncanonical OC are surveyed here: Finite control, controlled overt pronouns, partial control, proxy control and crossed control. Each one is described and illustrated, paying attention to methodological difficulties in establishing its characteristic empirical signature. We then turn to a critical assessment of leading theoretical accounts of these phenomena, pointing to merits and faults, and indicating how they can be integrated with broader concerns of syntactic theory.
A series of recent works (Chomsky 2021, Chomsky et al. 2023, Chomsky 2024) offers a novel theory of Obligatory Control (OC), based on the operation Form Copy (FC), which applies in movement chains as well. In this article I offer a critical assessment of the FC theory, focusing on its empirical consequences. I argue that this theory faces significant challenges. First, it offers no satisfactory answer to the fundamental question of what makes control obligatory in many cases. Second, it ignores the mass of evidence that the controllee is a pronoun rather than a lexical NP. Third, it unnecessarily complicates phase theory. Fourth, it overgenerates structures in which the controlled copy is produced by movement (Internal Merge); and fifth, it cannot adequately handle Partial Control. For all these reasons, judgment as to the implications of (or support from) the FC theory of control for the Strong Minimalist Thesis must be suspended.
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