Control and Restructuring by Thomas Grano
This book investigates the phenomenon of control structures, configurations in which the subject of the embedded clause is missing and is construed as coreferential with the subject of the embedding clause (e.g. John wanted to leave). It draws on data from English, Mandarin Chinese, and Modern Greek to investigate the relationship that control bears both to restructuring - the phenomenon whereby some apparently biclausal structures behave as though they constitute just one clause - and to the meanings of the embedding predicates that participate in these structures. Thomas Grano argues that restructuring is cross-linguistically pervasive and that, by virtue of its co-occurrence with some control predicates but not others, it serves as evidence for a basic division within the class of complement control structures. This division is connected to how the semantics of the control predicate interacts with general principles of clausal architecture and of the syntax-semantics interface. His findings have general implications both for clausal structure and for the relationship between form and meaning in natural language.-
The Logic of Conventional Implicatures
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Definiteness in Balkan Romance
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Nominalization
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The Left Edge Ban and the Architecture of the Grammar
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Causation in Grammatical Structures
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Count and Mass Across Languages
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The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages
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Encoding Events
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The Grammar of the Utterance
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Parts of a Whole
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Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers
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Telicity, Change, and State
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Modals and Conditionals
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Concealed Questions
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Interfaces in Linguistics
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The Complementizer Phase
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The Logic of Pronominal Resumption
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Gender and Noun Classification
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Contrast and Representations in Syntax
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The Grammar of Expressivity
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Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives
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Quantification, Definiteness, and Nominalization
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Lexical Plurals
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The Syntax of Sentential Stress
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The Verbal Complex in Romance
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Diagnosing Syntax
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Phonetics, Phonology, and Cognition
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External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations
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Adjectives and Adverbs
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Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives
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The Morphology and Phonology of Exponence
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Optimality Theoretic Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics
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Continuations and Natural Language
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The Unaccusativity Puzzle
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Strategies of Quantification
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Sentence and Discourse
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The Syntax of Silence
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Canonical Forms in Prosodic Morphology
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Genericity
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Modality Across Syntactic Categories
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The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax
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Ways of Structure Building
Thomas Grano is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Indiana University. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2012, and he specializes in semantics and syntax, with particular attention to clausal complementation, gradability and comparison, and Mandarin Chinese. His work has appeared in journals such as Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, and Natural Language Semantics.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198703938 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198703937 |
| Title | Control and Restructuring |
| Author | Thomas Grano |
| Series | Oxford Studies In Theoretical Linguistics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2015-03-26 |
| Number of pages | 260 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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