By Steven Franks, Norbert Hornstein (auth.), Richard K. Larson, Sabine Iatridou, Utpal Lahiri, James Higginbotham (eds.)
The articles during this quantity grew from papers provided on the workshop on keep watch over held on the Massachusetts Institute of expertise, March 1989. The paintings of a number of the authors comes at a second in linguistic thought that's outstanding for 2 advancements. First, there was expanding involvement of syntactic thought in semantics and of semantic concept in syntax, with the end result that the sorting of evidence into syntactic and semantic has turn into a extra advanced and theory-laden affair. moment, there was a massive development either within the breadth and intensity of reports in languages except English. either one of those boost ments have left their mark at the authors, at once and in a roundabout way. they've got additionally been accountable for the shifts that experience given the major terminology its current variety of program. during this advent we speak about the heritage to the problems that have been really well-liked either on the workshop and within the authors' ultimate drafts. We additionally com ment at the spirit of inquiry that they characterize. Our target is to supply a few orientation to the explicit contents of the essays and to provide fabric for mirrored image on a collection of difficulties that might no doubt advance and deepen as quickly within the foreseeable destiny as they've got within the fresh past.
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Indeed, in Russian, as in English, this turns out to be the case: (23) (a) Cto Ivan vyrazil zelanie kupit' what express desire to-buy 'What did Ivan express a desire to buy' (b) *Cto Ivan vyrazil svoe zelanie kupit' 'What did Ivan express his desire to buy' Extraction is similarly impossible out of the embedded clauses in (20) since complex verb formation is impermissible with these predicates. Questions such as (24) are therefore unacceptable: (24) *Kogo Ivan proposil razreSenija priglasit' na vecerinku 'Who did Ivan ask permission to invite to the party' These judgements are subtle, to be sure, but it is striking that Russian speakers consistently treat WH -extraction and secondary predicate agreement in a parallel fashion - those that preferred agreement in (20) also accepted (24).
136) the nominative form odin "was felt to be more acceptable than a nominative would be" in the other examples discussed. What is special about the obeScat' construction? " More seriously, subsequent research indicates that, in fact, for many speakers the dative is unacceptable in (47b) just as in (47a), with the nominative being the only viable (though rather infelicitous) alternative. 40 Why might this be so, contrary to the prima facie predictions made by both Comrie's approach and ours? In other words, why might materi in (47b) not interfere with government relations between the verb and its complement?
This is important for our analysis, because otherwise one would expect absolutely no difference between passivized object control and subject control structures. These facts, together with the filled COMP and complex NP constructions examined in detail above, reveal that something like the proper government account is necessary. Moreover, the proper government requirement on case active PROs suffices to account for the failure of agreement in cases of object control. We can account for these data without invoking any additional stipulation concerning the case or grammatical function of the antecedent.