The syntax of Japanese tokoro-clauses: Against control analyses

Yoshimoto, Keisuke

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2013.01.007

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“…The phenomenon is real but its scope has been overestimated (see Kwon et al. (2010) on Korean, Yoshimoto (2013) on Japanese, Coftas (2016) on Romanian and Alexiadou and Anagnostopoulou (2021) on Greek for different reanalyses of cases formerly thought to instantiate backward control). Also left out is the much rarer copy control (Haddad, 2009; F. Lee, 2003), whose status is less clear (Kissock, 2013).…”

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Noncanonical Obligatory Control

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2024

Language and Linguist. Compass

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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.

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Noncanonical Obligatory Control

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2024

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Control

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2024

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This Elements presents the major findings and theoretical advances in the area of Control. We describe the different types of control (complement, adjunct, obligatory, nonobligatory) and illustrate their profiles in several languages. It is shown that while certain features of Obligatory Control (OC) are common – nullness of PRO, nonfinite complements – they are not universal, hence should not enter its core definition. Comparing approaches to the choice of controller based on lexical meaning postulates with those based on embedding of speech acts, we conclude that the latter provide deeper insights into the core properties of OC. The fundamental semantic distinction between clauses denoting a property and those denoting a proposition proves to be important: It affects both the possibility of Partial Control in complements and the possibility of Non Obligatory Control in adjuncts. These insights are integrated in the Two-Tiered Theory of Control, laid out in the final sections.

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Empirical challenges to the Form-Copy Theory of Control

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2024

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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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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The syntax of Japanese tokoro-clauses: Against control analyses

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Empirical challenges to the Form-Copy Theory of Control

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