[Syntax] Control Verbs and PRO

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  • čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
  • In this video I discuss control verbs and big PRO, a silent pronoun that receives a theta role but does not receive case. We also discuss tests to check whether a verb is control or raising.
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Komentáře • 35

  • @marijanesic1275
    @marijanesic1275 Před rokem +7

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  • @julestravels4334
    @julestravels4334 Před 6 lety +18

    PLEASE CONTINUE THIS SERIES TO ADVANCES SYNTAX!!!

  • @howtogame98
    @howtogame98 Před 4 lety +7

    This is very helpful. Does anyone have a resource that has a lot of sentences with answers that I can practice on and check?

  • @ourasaljani1770
    @ourasaljani1770 Před 6 lety +16

    HI. in the last sentence you prefered to make a trinary branching; i thought that binare branching is the only acceptable brancing model in the generative literature

  • @sadafkhan1679
    @sadafkhan1679 Před 2 lety

    You're the best teacher ever! Thank you so much for the crystal clear explanation. Please make videos on advanced Syntax as well.

  • @elamiri858
    @elamiri858 Před rokem

    You really have a gift for explaining things. I find your reasoning much clearer than my lecturer's. Thanks a lot!

  • @haowen6409
    @haowen6409 Před 4 lety +2

    i wonder how we can draw the tree structure of “he has to resign from his job” and decides whether there exist an PRO. Intuitively, I think "have to" is similar to the auxiliray "must" and cannot be a theta-role assigner.

  • @b4040051
    @b4040051 Před 8 měsíci

    Very clear and precise! Thank you so much for your amazing lecture!

  • @symbolicmeta1942
    @symbolicmeta1942 Před 7 lety +4

    Loving these, really useful. You might want to update the syntax playlist or include the new videos though

    • @Trevtutor
      @Trevtutor  Před 7 lety +2

      It should contain all of them through automatic updating? I"ll check it out.

  • @demidron.
    @demidron. Před 2 lety

    8:00 I finally understood syntactically why I found the sentence "It's trying to rain" so funny when I heard it on TV. It's not just about animacy ... it's that "try" assigns the theta role Agent to the expletive "it".

  • @sesler26
    @sesler26 Před 6 lety

    Thanks, your videos really help me. Please upload more.

  • @Jeanlee-1004
    @Jeanlee-1004 Před 3 lety

    Thanks Trev! These videos are super helpful!

  • @scherezadedastur4721
    @scherezadedastur4721 Před 3 lety

    Very well explained. Thank you.

  • @oliverbird1354
    @oliverbird1354 Před 5 lety

    This is brilliant, thank you very much !

  • @akashsaha4534
    @akashsaha4534 Před 5 lety

    The idiom test and the theta role check seemed very obscure to me. Can you please throw some more light to help me understand the difference between raising and control verbs?

  • @theverylameme
    @theverylameme Před 9 měsíci

    Wholesome content and superb explanation! But I have a question that I hope you can answer: in a usage manual, it was stated that verbs like "promise" cannot have an NP intervening between the matrix verb and the dependent verb which makes a sentence like: I promise you to be home at five, wrong, at least according to the book I am quoting from. It is Advanced Grammar In Use by the way. Thanks in advance.

  • @ASDMan94
    @ASDMan94 Před 2 lety

    your series is better than Carnie's this is phenomenal, Trev

  • @pratiknanda9329
    @pratiknanda9329 Před 4 lety

    difference between control verb and ECM construction are bit hard, can you explain?

  • @yaxinliu5951
    @yaxinliu5951 Před 5 lety

    Thank you!

  • @chymchhbatlr9642
    @chymchhbatlr9642 Před 5 lety +1

    What about obligatory control and arbitrary control.

  • @nellyroberts7750
    @nellyroberts7750 Před 3 lety

    Thank u so much
    U are great

  • @julestravels4334
    @julestravels4334 Před 6 lety

    YOU ARE THE BEST

  • @nadahussein6866
    @nadahussein6866 Před 6 lety

    Tomorrow morning, I have a presentation about Control Theory and I'm lost😓, please help

  • @user-zp9sb7pt4p
    @user-zp9sb7pt4p Před rokem

    I love you so much , you make me understand so well, thank you so much for helping me do the final exam in PhD in English Liguistics courses!

  • @louischvs9395
    @louischvs9395 Před 3 měsíci

    5:33 the DP under V' should (must) be the spec of the CP next to it
    primary bases of X-bar is no more than 2 nodes under any other

  • @jonathangrech177
    @jonathangrech177 Před 4 lety

    I don't know how to analyze the following sentence: He was seen to rob the bank... because seen is raising and after seen I need a dp trace to he but then rob is a control so I should write a control co index with he... I'm quite confused!

    • @Glisern
      @Glisern Před 4 lety +2

      Ungrammatical sentence.

  • @user-wl6yx3dw5k
    @user-wl6yx3dw5k Před 6 lety +1

    If the sentence is "Jeff wants Marion to leave", how do you explain?

    • @user-wl6yx3dw5k
      @user-wl6yx3dw5k Před 6 lety

      To me "want" does not require a theme because it only does a agent and proposition. Also I believe that "persuade" requires an agent, a theme, and proposition. And then I'll agree that "to leave" only requires an agent. What i want to say here is that in the sentence "Jeff wants Marion to leave", Marion is going up from the subject of "to leave", which is what is called subject to object raising instead of object control. What do you think about it?

  • @heywingliu9085
    @heywingliu9085 Před 4 lety

    I want to ask a question about my assignment
    *She persuaded it to snow
    Why is this sentence ungrammatical? "Snow" can't assign theta role to "it", so "it" just raised to gain the theta role from "persuaded"?

  • @Ken-ci8fo
    @Ken-ci8fo Před 3 lety

    "The cat wants to be out of the bag." You explained this sentence that there's a PRO which is coreferent with The cat moving up to the subject of the main clause. However, let's imagine a sentence. "John wants the cat to be get out of the bag." The obvious fact is that "want" gives a theta role "Agent" to "John" but not give "theme" to "the cat" which is not a DO. Plus, "the cat" simply moves up to the position from SPEC of VP[be out of the bag] so it's just a rising not a control theory. Therefore, it needs to think that "the cat" is a subject of the subordinate clause but not a DO.

  • @akashsaha4534
    @akashsaha4534 Před 5 lety +2

    The idiom test and the theta role check seemed very obscure to me. Can you please throw some more light to help me understand the difference between raising and control verbs?