Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

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Semantic and Syntactic Factors in Control* L. Michelle Cutrer University of California, San Diego Introduction Control, where ...

(^168) L. MICHELLE CUTRER This analysis will not only look at the control of the subject of infiniti­ val complements, but also ...

SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC FACTORS IN CONTROL 169 Distance Principle in terms of grammatical relations. For a detailed critique of t ...

170 L. MICHELLE CUTRER icate takes subject control or nonsubject control will ultimately turn out to follow directly from the me ...

SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC FACTORS IN CONTROL 171 2. The RRG analysis of control We now turn to the RRG theory of control relations, ...

172 L. MICHELLE CUTRER The pivot of the dependent clause cannot be the actor, for the obligatory gap is postverbal. The preverba ...

SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC FACTORS IN CONTROL 173 In the case of Passivization, undergoer control is the important notion in RRG, ra ...

174 L. MICHELLE CUTRER This alternation of actor and undergoer control, with verbs such as ask, is explained in RRG by the chang ...

SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC FACTORS IN CONTROL 175 3. A semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic analysis In this section, I will present a ...

176 L. MICHELLE CUTRER (14) (In order) to please her, John bought Mary a piano. Non-rationale control constructions cannot be pr ...

SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC FACTORS IN CONTROL 177 3.1.1 Control in rationale constructions In RRG terms, rationale constructions are ...

178 L. MICHELLE CUTRER Comparing (24a) and (24b), we see that both examples of clausal juncture exhibit the same coreference fac ...

SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC FACTORS IN CONTROL 179 3.1.2.1 Control of the object gap in purpose clauses As seen previously, there are ...

180 L. MICHELLE CUTRER is the highest ranking potential undergoer argument. The crucial observa­ tion is that the highest rankin ...

SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC FACTORS IN CONTROL 181 level of grammatical relations. This is not surprising, as English is a refer­ enc ...

182 L. MICHELLE CUTRER actor of the matrix clause remains possessor of the item and thus is the only available agent to perform ...

SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC FACTORS IN CONTROL 183 (33) a. John built a bed to sleep in. b. John built the baby a bed to sleep in. (3 ...

184 L. MICHELLE CUTRER transfer, the actor, which is an effector-recipient, is controller. The change in the verb's function is ...

SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC FACTORS IN CONTROL 185 evoke a recipient controller, since it is a part of our cultural knowledge that a ...