About the Project
This web site is part of a larger project examining and documenting control patterns in under-studied languages. The Variation in Control Structures project is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
People
Principle investigators are Maria Polinsky and Eric Potsdam. Graduate student researchers include Shin Fukuda, Youssef Haddad, Peter Jenks, and Nayoung Kwon. Past participants include Laura Kertz (through 2006), Philip Monahan (through 2003), and Antje Thiessen (through 2003). Programming and technical support were provided by Robert Lee, Richard Liu, Ezra Van Everbroeck, Laura Kertz, and Marc Silver.
Overview
The principal investigators have documented "backward control" in several languages, including Tsez, Bezhta, and Malagasy. Graduate researchers funded by the project have also analyzed control patterns in a variety of lesser studied languages.
The handouts included below provide an overview of the project goals and some preliminary findings.
- Maria Polinsky. Control and Raising: Back and Forth Linguistic Society of America, January 2005.
- Maria Polinsky, Shin Fukuda, Laura Kertz. Variation in Control Structures. University of California, San Diego, November 2004.
Publications
Research results from the project have been published in a variety of journals and presented at linguistic conferences in the US and abroad.
- Youssef A. Haddad. (2007) Adjunct Control in Telugu and Assamese. PhD Dissertation, University of Florida.
- Maria Polinsky. (2007) Object control in Korean: Obligatory vs. non-obligatory control. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 47.
- Shin Fukuda. (2007) The control/raising ambiguity with aspectual verbs:a structural account. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 47.
- Maria Polinsky and Eric Potsdam. (2006) Expanding the Scope of Control and Raising. To appear in Syntax.
- Nayoung Kwon and Maria Polinsky. (2006) Object Control in Korean: Structure and Processing. To appear in Japanese/Korean Linguistics 15.
- Eric Potsdam. (2006) Backward Object Control: Against an Empty Category Analysis. WCCFFL 25.
- Laura Kertz. (2006) Evaluative Predicates: An Adjunct Control Analysis. WCCFFL 25.
- Maria Polinsky and Eric Potsdam. (2004) Malagasy Control and its Theoretical Implications. BLS 30.
- Philip Monahan. (2003) Backward Object Control in Korean. WCCFL 22.
- Maria Polinsky and Eric Potsdam. (2003) Control in Malagasy. AFLA-IX, Cornell.
- Maria Polinsky and Eric Potsdam. (2003) Backward Control: Evidence from Malagasy. AFLA-VIII, MIT.
- Maria Polinsky and Eric Potsdam. (2002) Backward Control. Linguistic Inquiry 33, 24-282.