Inflected infinitives in Brazilian Portuguese as an argument both contra and in favor of a movement analysis of control
Author(s) -
Marcello Modesto
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
revista letras
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2236-0999
pISSN - 0100-0888
DOI - 10.5380/rel.v72i0.7553
Subject(s) - portuguese , movement (music) , subject (documents) , argument (complex analysis) , philosophy , humanities , brazilian portuguese , linguistics , computer science , aesthetics , chemistry , biochemistry , library science
This work shows that BP data strongly argue against the movement theory of Control w.r.t. Subject Control but, surprisingly, provide arguments in favor of the same MTC w.r.t. Object Control. I argue that movement is usually the means to achieve Control structures; however, due to Case reasons, movement from a subject position cannot target another subject position.
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