Visser’s Generalization: The Syntax of Control and the Passive
This squib presents an argument for an agreement-based model of control (Borer 1989, Landau 2000, 2004, 2006, 2008), drawn from a crosslinguistic generalization about control in passives. Specifically, I show that obligatory control by the thematic subject of a passive is sensitive to a purely synta...
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MIT Press
2013
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78672 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5564-6317 |