Control as Movement
Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; 126;
- Publisher's listprice GBP 32.00
-
15 288 Ft (14 560 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 20% (cc. 3 058 Ft off)
- Discounted price 12 230 Ft (11 648 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
15 288 Ft
Availability
Estimated delivery time: In stock at the publisher, but not at Prospero's office. Delivery time approx. 3-5 weeks.
Not in stock at Prospero.
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 17 April 2014
- ISBN 9781107672062
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages274 pages
- Size 229x152x15 mm
- Weight 370 g
- Language English 0
Categories
Short description:
Presents the main arguments for and against the Movement Theory of Control.
MoreLong description:
The Movement Theory of Control (MTC) makes one major claim: that control relations in sentences like 'John wants to leave' are grammatically mediated by movement. This goes against the traditional view that such sentences involve not movement, but binding, and analogizes control to raising, albeit with one important distinction: whereas the target of movement in control structures is a theta position, in raising it is a non-theta position; however the grammatical procedures underlying the two constructions are the same. This book presents the main arguments for MTC and shows it to have many theoretical advantages, the biggest being that it reduces the kinds of grammatical operations that the grammar allows, an important advantage in a minimalist setting. It also addresses the main arguments against MTC, using examples from control shift, adjunct control, and the control structure of 'promise', showing MTC to be conceptually, theoretically, and empirically superior to other approaches.
MoreTable of Contents:
1. Introduction; 2. Some historical background; 3. Basic properties of the Movement Theory of Control; 4. Empirical advantages; 5. Empirical challenges and solutions; 6. On non-obligatory control; 7. Some notes on semantic approaches to control; 8. The movement theory of control and the minimalist program.
More
