Control and Thematic Agreement

Ghomeshi, Jila

doi:10.1017/s0008413100017928

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“…According to Ghomeshi (2001), control verbs in Persian do not form a unified, coherent class, as each verb manifests its own set of idiosyncratic behaviors with respect to tests for control, ranging from marginal to totally acceptable. I will ignore the differences here and restrict the discussion to what Ghomeshi calls core control predicates.…”

Section: Persian Control Constructionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to Ghomeshi (2001), the embedded clause in the construction under discussion is a vP whose specifier contains a null nominal category (about whose grammatical identity she takes no stance). To argue that Persian control verbs take a vP complement, she uses Wurmbrand's (2001) tests based on restructuring and scrambling.…”

Section: Persian Control Constructionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Citing data from Wurmbrand 2001 showing that scrambling into a higher clause in German and clitic climbing into a superordinate sentence in Italian are possible with restructuring verbs, but not with nonrestructuring verbs, Ghomeshi (2001) takes restructuring as a process that is sensitive to clause boundaries and uses it to argue that Persian control verbs do not c-select a CP. She cites Karimi 1999 as showing that scrambling in Persian is possible if there is no overt constituent bearing the same grammatical function as the scrambled element in the target or intermediate clause (Ghomeshi 2001:22).…”

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“…In section 3, I show that restructuring and tense clash in Persian do not provide sufficient grounds for this analysis. In section 4, I provide three pieces of counterevidence to Ghomeshi's (2001) analysis of the complementizer ke 'that' as a clitic hosted by the matrix verb.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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On the vP Analysis of Persian Finite Control Constructions

Darzi

2008

Linguistic Inquiry

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Ghomeshi (2001) proposes an account of Persian subject control constructions in terms of a reduced vP complement to the control verb, following a proposal made by Wurmbrand (2001). Faced with the fact that the complement of the control verb is headed by what has been treated in the linguistic literature on Persian as the complementizer ke ‘that’, she suggests that ke, in this construction, is a clitic hosted by the matrix control verb. However, closer examination of the claimed “restructuring” construction, the distribution of temporal adverbials, and ke-cliticization in Persian militates against such a proposal.

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On the vP Analysis of Persian Finite Control Constructions

Darzi

2008

Linguistic Inquiry

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“…human cognition. Ghomeshi's (2001) study on Persian control and thematic agreement has shown that Persian has core control constructions in which the obligatorily empty subject of an embedded clause takes its reference from an antecedent in the next higher clause. These embedded clauses are relatively transparent for scrambling and lack independent tense.…”

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An Investigation into Verb Direction in English and Persian

Abdollahi-Guilani¹,

Yasin²,

Tan³

et al. 2012

ASS

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This paper compares several types of verbs in English and Persian in terms of direction. The direction of verbs seems to be potentially problematic for the Iranian EFL learners. English verbs can be formed by affixation and compounding. Even proper names and names of animals and products can be used as simple verbs. Persian is poor in this respect, and most verbs are formed via a limited number of affixes or by the productive process of verb collocation. English verbs seem more flexible in switching to intransitive or transitive modes, while Persian requires morphological transformation. The use of prepositions with objects can pose problems for the Iranian EFL learners. In one language, the focus of the sentence is on the subject while in the other, emphasis is directed to the object. Adverbs and prepositional phrases can be inherently stored in the English verb, while Persian has to openly express them.

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Control Phenomena

Potsdam

Haddad

2017

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition

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Control phenomena have been at the center of syntactic theorizing almost since the inception of generative grammar. To first approximation, control is an interpretive dependency between two arguments: a lexicalized noun phrase (the controller) and a null argument in a dependent clause (the controllee), as in Sandy hopes [ ∅ to succeed] . The primary concerns of syntactic theories have been accounting for various characteristics of the null controllee and the identification of its controller. This chapter surveys some of the phenomena that have driven our current understanding of these issues. Within the domain of obligatory control, some phenomena speak to the controller: the behavior of polyadic predicates, implicit control, variable control and control shift, and exceptional cases like promise . Other phenomena speak to the controllee: exhaustive control, partial control, split control, and control in embedded questions. Assuming that non‐obligatory control is a kind of elsewhere case, the phenomena relevant to non‐obligatory control are those where obligatory control restrictions on controller choice fail to materialize: control into subjects, extraposed clauses, and some adjunct clauses. The chapter also discusses phenomena with a non‐canonical realization of the control relation: backward control and copy control. Within the context of these phenomena, the chapter surveys current generative approaches to the analysis of control: dominant PRO‐based approaches, the movement theory of control, and restructuring analyses. Relative strengths and weaknesses are highlighted.

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Control and Thematic Agreement

Cited by 31 publications

References 15 publications

On the vP Analysis of Persian Finite Control Constructions

On the vP Analysis of Persian Finite Control Constructions

An Investigation into Verb Direction in English and Persian

Control Phenomena

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