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This examines the use of infinitives with and without the use of "to" in English. Duffley examines these uses adopting the semantic approach and challenges old assumptions that grammar is independent of meaning and should be dealt with in purely formal terms.

This monograph is part of a growing research agenda in which semantics and pragmatics not only complement the grammar, but replace it. The analysis is based on the assumption that human language is not primarily about form, but about form-meaning pairings. This runs counter to the autonomous-syntax postulate underlying Landau (2013) s Control in Generative Grammar that form must be hived off from meaning and studied separately. Duffley shows control to depend on meaning in combination with inferences based on the nature of the events expressed by the matrix and complement, the matrix...