Adjunct Control Depends on Voice
Idan Landau
February 2017 

Nonfinite adjuncts present a puzzle in that they seem to allow both Obligatory Control (OC) and Non-Obligatory control (NOC) readings, which are normally in complementary distribution. Extending the analysis of complement control, I propose that adjuncts can either project as predicative clauses, or one layer further, as logophoric clauses; each projection is uniquely paired with its own type of control. This picture allows us to state in compact terms, though not to resolve, another puzzle that was noted in the 1980s: Rationale clauses resist implicit agent control when passivized. I show that the effect is systematic and extends to other environments (copular main clauses and temporal adjuncts). The emerging generalization is that passive adjuncts resist NOC.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/003322 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	A Pesky Set: Papers for David Pesetsky, ed. by Halpert, C., H. Kotek and C. van Urk, Cambridge, MA: MITWPL
keywords:	control, adjunct clauses, passive, syntax
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