The Grammar of Raising and Control: A Course in Syntactic Argumentation

Preface.

Part I: Classical Transformational Grammar: Laying the groundwork:.

Introduction: Building the foundations of a syntactic analysis.

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 on Transformations.

Excerpt from Chomsky 1973.

5. The On Raising Debates: Bresnan, Postal, and Bach.

Part II: Extensions and Reinterpretations of Standard Theory:.

Introduction: Branching paths of inquiry.

6. Relational Grammar” Perlmutter and Postal’s The Relational Succession Law.

Excerpt from Permutter & Postal 1972/83.

7. Revised Extended Standard Theory: Chomsky and Lasnik’s Filters and Control.

Excerpt from Chomsky & Lasnik 1977.

Part III: Government & Binding Theory:.

Introduction: The interaction of principles and possible analyses.

8. Chomsky’s Lectures on Government & Binding and the ECM analysis of Raising.

9. Development of and problems for the ECM account: Kayne 1981 and 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/Control distinction.

11. Functional projections and the rise of the Minimalist Program.

12. The return to a Raising to Object analysis.

Excerpt from Lasnik & Saito 1991.

13. The separation/unification of Raising/Control.

References.

Index