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The Virtues of Control as Movement
Author(s) -
Boeckx Cedric,
Hornstein Norbert
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
syntax
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-9612
pISSN - 1368-0005
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9612.2006.00086.x
Subject(s) - movement (music) , control (management) , raising (metalworking) , position (finance) , movement control , computer science , heading (navigation) , complementation , artificial intelligence , mathematics , philosophy , aesthetics , economics , geography , physical medicine and rehabilitation , geodesy , medicine , biochemistry , chemistry , geometry , finance , gene , phenotype
. Control has played an important role in theoretical debates within the Minimalist Program. This is so because control implicates notions such as module, θ ‐role, the Last Resort nature of syntactic operations, movement, binding, chains, Case, complementation, and more. Hornstein (1999) has controversially claimed that control is a subspecies of movement. That is, control is just like familiar instances of raising, except that it involves movement into an additional θ ‐position. If correct, the movement analysis has important conceptual and empirical repercussions, some of which are examined here.