TY - JOUR
T1 - Nonobligatory Control with Communication Verbs: New Evidence and Implications
AU - Landau, Idan
N1 - Funding Information:
The material in this article has been presented, in various forms, at PLC 40, IATL 32, and IGG 44, and in linguistic colloquia at New York University and Rutgers University. I thank the audiences at all these events for their helpful feedback. I am also grateful to Jeroen van Craenenbroeck, Miok Pak, and two Linguistic Inquiry reviewers for extremely important comments. All remaining errors are mine.
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© 2019 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - When occurring without their goal argument, communication verbs induce two types of control: obligatory control (OC) by the implicit goal, or nonobligatory control (NOC) by a salient antecedent. Arguments are presented to demonstrate that the two are genuinely distinct, and furthermore, that the NOC option is not reducible to embedded imperatives. The two types of control implicate the same grammatical representations, the single difference being the choice of the context of evaluation for PRO (fixed as the reported context in OC, free in NOC). Finally, evidence is presented (from VP-ellipsis) that reference to deictic antecedents in NOC is not direct but mediated via grammatically present entities (SPEAKER and ADDRESSEE functions).
AB - When occurring without their goal argument, communication verbs induce two types of control: obligatory control (OC) by the implicit goal, or nonobligatory control (NOC) by a salient antecedent. Arguments are presented to demonstrate that the two are genuinely distinct, and furthermore, that the NOC option is not reducible to embedded imperatives. The two types of control implicate the same grammatical representations, the single difference being the choice of the context of evaluation for PRO (fixed as the reported context in OC, free in NOC). Finally, evidence is presented (from VP-ellipsis) that reference to deictic antecedents in NOC is not direct but mediated via grammatically present entities (SPEAKER and ADDRESSEE functions).
KW - Communication verbs
KW - Embedded imperatives
KW - Nonobligatory control
KW - Speech acts
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U2 - 10.1162/ling_a_00332
DO - 10.1162/ling_a_00332
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85077845035
SN - 0024-3892
VL - 51
SP - 75
EP - 96
JO - Linguistic Inquiry
JF - Linguistic Inquiry
IS - 1
ER -