Up to D[eb]ate on Raising and Control, Part 2: The Empirical Range of the Constructions and Research on their Acquistion

Abstract

This is the second part of a two-part article that reviews a number of the current debates regarding raising and control constructions. The issues addressed in this part include the spectrum of related raising (e.g. possessor raising, further raising) and control (partial, split, generic, super-equi) phenomena; cross-linguistic typology, including backward and copy constructions; and their acquisition in child language