What Changes in a Sentence When We Swap Verbs? Raising vs. Control Verbs
How does a sentence's structure change when you swap one word for another? How can we know what those changes are? In this week's episode, we talk about raising and control verbs: what they are, how we can tell that they're different, and what they can tell us about how syntax works.
This is Topic #52!
This week's tag language: Igbo!
Last episode:
Future Tense: • What Makes a Sentence True or False? ...
Other of our syntax videos:
Referential Treatment - Binding Theory: • Binding Theory and Interpreting Pronouns
Goldilocks and the Three Nouns - Theta Theory: • Theta Roles
Trace Evidence - Syntactic Movement: • Syntactic Movement and Traces
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If you want to know more about this sort of syntactic analysis, we recommend Andrew Carnie's Syntax: A Generative Introduction. It's a pretty good setup!
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