41. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft

Universität Bremen, 06. – 08. März 2019

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AG 3: Cross-linguistic variation in control phenomena

Arbeitsgruppen-Koordination

Jutta Hartmann (IDS Mannheim)
hartmann@ids-mannheim.de
Anne Mucha (IDS Mannheim)
mucha@ids-mannheim.de
Beata Trawiński (IDS Mannheim)
trawinski@ids-mannheim.de
Angelika Wöllstein (IDS Mannheim)
woellstein@ids-mannheim.de

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Across the worldˈs languages, we find a wide variety of phenomena that can be regarded as instances of control in that they involve a referentially dependent unpronounced subject in an embedded (typically non-finite) clause. Investigation of these control structures has proven fruitful both from a typological and from a theoretical point of view. For instance, differences in the control properties of infinitive-selecting predicates have been shown to correlate with the syntactic structure as well as with the temporal and modal interpretation of the embedded control constituent in interesting ways (see e.g. Landau, 2000; Wurmbrand 2001, 2002; Pearson 2016; Brandt, Trawiński & Wöllstein 2016). While the theoretical literature on control phenomena is extensive and controversial (for an overview see Landau 2013), controversy partly originates from disagreement over the nature of control as a lexical, syntactic or pragmatic phenomenon (Köpcke & Panther 1993; Stiebels 2007) and over what the exact empirical generalizations are (for discussion, see e.g. Polinsky & Potsdam 2006 for the case of backward control, and White & Grano 2014 for partial control).

This workshop aims to address pertinent issues concerning the grammar of control based on novel empirical evidence (from experiments, fieldwork or corpus studies) from a contrastive and cross-linguistic perspective, with a focus on non-canonical control phenomena. Non-canonical control phenomena by our definition include, but are not restricted to, anti(-subject)-control, backward control, split-control, and control shift, as well as cases of non-obligatory and/or non-exhaustive control such as partial control and implicit control (see Stiebels 2007 for a survey of relevant phenomena).

References

Brandt, P., B. Trawiński, & A. Wöllstein (2016). (Anti-)Control in German: evidence from comparative, corpus- and psycholinguistic studies. In: Reich, I. & A. Speyer (eds.). Co- and subordination in German and other languages. Sonderheft 21 Linguistische Berichte, 77-98.

Landau, I. (1999). Elements of control. Ph.D. dissertation, MIT.

Landau, I. (2013). Control in generative grammar: a research companion. Cambridge University Press.

Pearson, H. (2016). The semantics of partial control. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 34, 691-738.

Polinsky, M. & E. Potsdam (2006). Expanding the scope of control and raising. Syntax 9, 171-192.

Stiebels, B. (2007). Towards a typology of complement control. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 47, 1- 59.

White, A. S. & T. Grano (2014). An experimental investigation of partial control. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 18, 469-486.