A Dual Approach To Control: Evidence From Assamese
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The major focus of this paper is on whether the relationship between the matrix clause argument that control the reference of the null argument in an embedded non finite clause involves a rule of movement or a construal relationship well defined without involving movement. This paper, on the basis of the facts in Assamese, argues that we need both the Movement theory as well as Control theory in order to deal with the syntax and semantics of the subject of infinitival constructions. However, both of these operations (movement and non-movement control) apply in separate grammatical domains which can be identified by various grammatical properties of these domains.
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