The Grammar of Raising and Control surveys analyses across arange of theoretical frameworks from Rosenbaum's classic StandardTheory analysis (1967) to current proposals within the MinimalistProgram, and provides readers with a critical understanding ofthese, helping them in the process to develop keen insights intothe strengths and weaknesses of syntactic arguments in general.* Distills a very successful graduate course in syntax from twoprominent figures in the field, covering analyses from a range oftheoretical frameworks.* Provides readers with an understanding of the variousperspectives represented in generative syntax, using a particularclass of grammatical constructions as a means of examining theevolution of syntactic theory over the last thirty years.* Helps students to develop keen insights into the strengths andweaknesses of syntactic arguments.* Includes excerpts from six important works that allow studentsto familiarize themselves with the original literature while alsoproviding discussion of the theoretical context in which they werewritten.

Acknowledgments.Preface.Part I: Classical Transformational Grammar: Laying thegroundwork:.Introduction: Building the foundations of a syntacticanalysis.1. Laying the empirical groundwork.2. Transformational Grammar and Rosenbaum's analysis.3. Postal's On Raising.Excerpt from Postal 1974.4. Extended Standard Theory: Chomsky's Conditions onTransformations.Excerpt from Chomsky 1973.5. The On Raising Debates: Bresnan, Postal, and Bach.Part II: Extensions and Reinterpretations of StandardTheory:.Introduction: Branching paths of inquiry.6. Relational Grammar" Perlmutter and Postal'sThe Relational Succession Law.Excerpt from Permutter & Postal 1972/83.7. Revised Extended Standard Theory: Chomsky and Lasnik'sFilters and Control.Excerpt from Chomsky & Lasnik 1977.Part III: Government & Binding Theory:.Introduction: The interaction of principles and possibleanalyses.8. Chomsky's Lectures on Government & Binding and theECM analysis of Raising.9. Development of and problems for the ECM account: Kayne 1981and Cole & Hermon 1981.Excerpt from Cole & Hermon 1981.10. Are all these really raising constructions?:Cross-linguistic issues.Part IV: The Minimalist Program:.Introduction: Neo-Raising, Neo-ECM, and the Raising/Controldistinction.11. Functional projections and the rise of the MinimalistProgram.12. The return to a Raising to Object analysis.Excerpt from Lasnik & Saito 1991.13. The separation/unification of Raising/Control.References.Index