Control Is Not Movement
Peter W. Culicover, Ray S. Jackendoff · Linguistic Inquiry · 2001
We present arguments against Hornstein's recent movement theory of control. Such a theory can be sustained only if a restricted subset of the data is considered. We review additional data that show that the position of the controller is determined at least in part by semantic constraints. A semantic account captures the generalizations in a manner impossible for a syntactic account.