Contenu
"This Element presents the major findings and theoretical advances in the area of control. The different types of control (complement, adjunct, obligatory, nonobligatory) are described and their profiles in several languages are illustrated. It is shown that while certain features of obligatory control (OC) are common - nullness of PRO, nonfinite complements - they are not universal, and hence should not enter its core definition. Comparing approaches to the choice of controller based on lexical meaning postulates with those based on embedding of speech acts, it is concluded that the latter provide deeper insights into the core properties of OC. The fundamental semantic distinction between clauses denoting a property and those denoting a proposition proves to be important: It affects both the possibility of partial control in complements and the possibility of nonobligatory control in adjuncts. These insights are integrated in the Two-Tiered Theory of Control, laid out in the final sections"--