Norbert Hornstein (University of Maryland), Maria Polinsky (Harvard University)
Natural languages offer many examples of displacement, i.e. constructions in which a non-local expression is critical for some grammatical end. Two central examples include phenomena such as raising and passive on the one hand, and control on the other. Though each phenomenon is an example of displacement, they have been theoretically distinguished. Movement rules have generated the former and formally very different construal rules, the latter. The Movement Theory of Control challenges this differentiation and argues that the operations that generate the two constructions are the...
Natural languages offer many examples of displacement, i.e. constructions in which a non-local expression is critical for some grammatical end. Two ce...