The Grammar of Raising and Control A Course

Where most syntax texts and readers provide a broad introduction to the components of a particular theory, The Grammar of Raising and Control: A Course in Syntactic Argumentation uses a particular class of grammatical constructions as a means of examining the evolution of syntactic theory since the 1960s. A distillation of a very successful graduate course in syntax, this book focuses primarily on raising-to-object structures, but does not fail to consider control constructions, as well as data from a wide variety of languages. The volume includes excerpts from six important works that allow students to familiarize themselves with the original literature while also providing discussion of the theoretical contexts in which they were written.

William D. Davies is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Iowa and is author of Choctaw Verb Agreement and Universal Grammar (1986).

Stanley Dubinsky is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of South Carolina. He is co-editor of Objects and Other Subjects: Grammatical Functions, Functional Categories, and Configurationality (with William D. Davies, 2001).

Preface

vii

Acknowledgments

x

Unit I Classical Transformational Grammar

1

(104)

Introduction: Building the Foundations of a Syntactic Analysis

1

(104)

1 Laying the Empirical Groundwork

3

(14)

2 Transformational Grammar and Rosenbaum's Analysis

17

(13)

3 Postal's On Raising

30

(30)

Reading from Postal (1974)

35

(25)

4 Extended Standard Theory: Chomsky's "Conditions on Transformations"

60

(29)

Reading from Chomsky (1973)

62

(27)

5 The On Raising Debates: Bresnan, Postal, and Bach

89

(16)

Unit II Extensions and Reinterpretations of Standard Theory

105

(70)

Introduction: Branching Paths of Inquiry

105

(70)

6 Relational Grammar: Perlmutter and Postal's "The Relational Succession Law"

107

(30)

Reading from Permutter and Postal (1972/83)

108

(29)

7 Revised Extended Standard Theory: Chomsky and Lasnik's "Filters and Control"

137

(38)

Reading from Chomsky and Lasnik (1977)

138

(37)

Unit III Government and Binding Theory

175

(98)

Introduction: The Interaction of Principles and Possible Analyses

175

(68)

8 Chomsky's Lectures on Government and Binding and the ECM Analysis of Raising

177

(23)

9 Development of and Problems for the ECM Account: Kayne (1981) and Cole and Hermon (1981)

200

(43)

Reading from Cole and Hermon (1981)

209

(34)

10 Are All These Really Raising Constructions? Cross-Linguistic Issues

243

(30)

Unit IV The Minimalist Program

273

(90)

Introduction: Neo-Raising, Neo-ECM, and the Raising/Control Distinction

273

(2)

11 Functional Projections and the Rise of the Minimalist Program

275

(24)

12 The Return to a Raising-to-Object Analysis

299

(33)

Reading: Lasnik and Saito (1991)

300

(32)

13 The Separation/Unification of Raising and Control

332

(31)

References

363

(11)

Name Index

374

(3)

Subject Index

377

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The Grammar of Raising and Control A Course in Syntactic Argumentation

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