Book contents
- Continuing Syntax
- Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
- Continuing Syntax
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Configuration and Hierarchy
- 1 Goals and Basic Assumptions
- 2 Hierarchy I: Phrase Structure and Grammatical Functions
- 3 Hierarchy II: C-Command, Head-Movement and Locality
- 4 Hierarchy and Categories I: Refining the Structure of the Clause and the VP
- 5 Hierarchy and Categories II: The Structure of Nominals
- 6 Case and the Nature of Infinitives
- 7 Features, Case and Agreement
- 8 Hierarchy and Linear Order
- 9 The Origins of Hierarchy: Bare Phrase Structure
- Part II Locality
- Glossary
- Book part
- Index
- References
6 - Case and the Nature of Infinitives
from Part I - Configuration and Hierarchy
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Book contents
- Continuing Syntax
- Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
- Continuing Syntax
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Configuration and Hierarchy
- 1 Goals and Basic Assumptions
- 2 Hierarchy I: Phrase Structure and Grammatical Functions
- 3 Hierarchy II: C-Command, Head-Movement and Locality
- 4 Hierarchy and Categories I: Refining the Structure of the Clause and the VP
- 5 Hierarchy and Categories II: The Structure of Nominals
- 6 Case and the Nature of Infinitives
- 7 Features, Case and Agreement
- 8 Hierarchy and Linear Order
- 9 The Origins of Hierarchy: Bare Phrase Structure
- Part II Locality
- Glossary
- Book part
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter introduces the theory of abstract Case. Case theory provides an account of what causes A-movement and predicts that many infinitival subject positions cannot be filled with overt arguments, although several types of infinitives have to be distinguished. This leads to a discussion of control phenomena and the movement theory of control.
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- Continuing SyntaxHierarchy and Locality, pp. 119 - 138Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
References
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Boeckx, C., Hornstein, N. & Nunes, J.. 2010. Control as Movement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Landau, I, 2004. The scale of finiteness and the calculus of control. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 22: 811–77.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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