Verb Entailment and Control Shift

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In this paper, whether thematic-role-based approaches with some limited number of thematic roles are capable of explaining control phenomena is questioned. Especially when it comes to the problem of control shift, non-theoretical approaches that are not based on specific theoretical frameworks seem desirable since an appeal to pragmatic notions such as agentivity, (non-linguistic) control, responsibility, beneficiary, etc. becomes more convincing. Control shift can be better explained by generalizations about the entailments of control verbs and how these verbs interact with the meaning described by the infinitive complement, and it is argued that no special mechanism like semantic coercion is necessary to explain control shift. Specifically, the interaction of Farkas' responsibility relation and the potential benefit relation proposed in this paper can explain both canonical cases of control and control shift found with verbs such as promise and persuade. On the other hand, control shift observed in sentences with the verb ask is treated as a result of lexical ambiguity of the verb.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Thematic and Non-theoretical Control
• 3. Semantic Coercion
• 4. Control Shift
• 5. Conclusion
• References

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