A Minimalist Approach to Control Construction
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The pronominal anaphor, which has generally been called as PRO, has been discussed many times in lots of works so far. In the GB framework, one of seven modules, control theory handles the phenomenon of PRO quite well. However, in the framework of Minimalist Program, the notion of 'Government' exists no more and thus, the explanatory adequacy of control theory based on 'Government' disappears. In Derivation by Phase (i.e., Chomsky(2001)), the notion of PIC is a big obstacle for accounting for the PRO control phenomenon. Therefore, in this paper, I suggest the alternative mechanism to account for the obligatory control phenomenon(i.e., subject or object control) uniformly. And I conclude that promise-type verb has a EPP feature whereas persuade-type verb has no EPP feature and the existence of the EPP feature in the light verb, v* causes the difference between subject control and object control.
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The pronominal anaphor, which has generally been called as PRO, has been discussed many times in lots of works so far. In the GB framework, one of seven modules, control theory handles the phenomenon of PRO quite well. However, in the framework of Minimalist Program, the notion of 'Government' exists no more and thus, the explanatory adequacy of control theory based on 'Government' disappears. In Derivation by Phase (i.e., Chomsky(2001)), the notion of PIC is a big obstacle for accounting for the PRO control phenomenon. Therefore, in this paper, I suggest the alternative mechanism to account for the obligatory control phenomenon(i.e., subject or object control) uniformly. And I conclude that promise-type verb has a EPP feature whereas persuade-type verb has no EPP feature and the existence of the EPP feature in the light verb, v* causes the difference between subject control and object control.