Reclaiming Control as a Semantic and Pragmatic Phenomenon.

Reclaiming Control as a Semantic and Pragmatic Phenomenon -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Linguistic Semantics and Pragmatics - what is said and what is not -- Chapter 2. The phenomenon of control -- Chapter 3. The meaning of the to-Infinitive and of the Gerund-participle -- Chapter 4. Control with the Infinitive and Gerund-participle in subject function -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Controller identified intra-sententially -- 3. Controller identified extra-sententially -- Chapter 5. Control with the infinitive and gerund-participle as direct complement of another verb -- 1. The gerund-participle -- 2. The infinitive -- 3. The explanation of control -- 4. Verbs of choice -- 5. Verbs of risk -- Chapter 6. Control in structures with non-finite verb forms in both subject and complement functions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The natural-language semantic categories involved in control structures with non-finite verb forms in both subject and complement functions -- 2.1 The semantic content of the non-finite subject -- 2.2 The lexical-semantic content of the main verb -- 2.3 The semantic content of the complement -- 2.4 The nature of the relationship between the non-finite subject and the main verb -- 2.5 The nature of the relationship between the complement and the main verb -- 3. Verbs denoting entailment -- 4. Verbs denoting risk -- 5. Verbs denoting facilitation -- 6. Verbs expressing the notion of requirement -- 7. Verbs denoting inclusion and exclusion -- 8. Verbs expressing avoidance -- 9. Verbs denoting justification -- 10. Conclusions -- Chapter 7. Control in adjective + to-infinitive constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Subject=subject constructions -- 3. Subject=object constructions -- 4. Conclusions -- Chapter 8. Control in verb + NP + to-infinitive constructions -- 1. Introduction.

2. What the ICE-GB corpus shows -- 3. What the ICE-GB doesn't show -- 4. Conclusions -- Chapter 9. Control in verb + to + gerund-participle vs. verb + to + infinitive constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Verbs expressing the notion of agreement -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The verb agree -- 2.3 The verb consent -- 2.4 The verb assent -- 2.5 The verb acquiesce -- 2.6 The verb accede -- 2.7 The verb subscribe -- 2.8 The verb submit -- 2.9 The verb commit -- 2.10 Conclusions on verbs expressing the notion of agreement -- 3. Verbs expressing the notions of admitting and attesting -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The verb admit -- 3.3 The verb confess -- 3.4 The verb acknowledge -- 3.5 The verb avow -- 3.6 The verb own -- 3.7 The phrasal verb own up to -- 3.8 The verb attest -- 3.9 The verb testify -- 3.10 The verb swear -- 3.11 The verb claim -- 3.12 Conclusions -- Chapter 10. Control in constructions composed of matrix verb + deverbal noun -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Verbs which have non-subject control with the gerund-participle -- 3. Verbs which have subject control with the gerund-participle -- 4. A few generalizations arising from the data -- 5. General conclusions and criticism of Haiman and Givón's iconicity account -- Chapter 11. Particular issues raised by other approaches to control -- 1. Control vs. raising: A false dichotomy -- 2. Obligatory vs. non-obligatory control -- 3. Obligatory, semi-obligatory and prominence control -- 4. Partial control vs. exhaustive control -- 5. PRO-gate -- 6. Free, nearly free and unique control -- 7. Adjunct control -- 8. Control with the to-infinitive in rationale clauses -- 9. A final note on the positive side of lack of control in free adjuncts -- Chapter 12. Control in French -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Baschung's lexico-syntactic approach -- 3. Achard's cognitive perspective.

4. Reichler-Béguelin's micro- vs macro-syntactic account -- 5. Control in French verbal complement constructions -- 6. Control in French adjective + infinitive constructions -- Conclusion -- References -- Subject index.

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 subject, the semantic relation between matrix and complement, and a number of other factors.The conclusions call for a reconsideration of Ariel (2010)'s distinction in Defining Pragmatics between semantics and pragmatics on the basis of cancelability: many control readings are not cancelable although they are pragmatically inferred. It is proposed that the line be drawn rather between what is linguistically expressed and what is not linguistically expressed but still communicated.

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