A Selectional Theory Of Adjunct Control Av Idan Landau

<b>A novel, systematic theory of adjunct control, explaining how and why adjuncts shift between obligatory and nonobligatory control.</b><br><br>Control in adjuncts involves a complex interaction of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, which so far has resisted systematic analysis. In this book, Idan Landau offers the first comprehensive account of adjunct control. Extending the framework developed in his earlier book, <i>A Two-Tiered Theory of Control</i>, Landau analyzes ten different types of adjuncts and shows that they fall into two categories: those displaying strict obligatory control (OC) and those alternating between OC and nonobligatory control (NOC). He explains how and why adjuncts shift between OC and NOC, unifying their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties.<br><br>Landau shows that the split between the two types of adjuncts reflects a fundamental distinction in the semantic type of the adjunct: <i>property</i> (OC) or <i>proposition</i> (NOC), a distinction indepe