@article{BrandtTrawiƄskiWoellstein2016, author = {Patrick Brandt and Beata TrawiƄski and Angelika W{\"o}llstein}, title = {(Anti-)Control in German: evidence from comparative, corpus- and psycholinguistic studies}, series = {Co- and subordination in German and other languages}, publisher = {Buske}, address = {Hamburg}, issn = {0024-3930}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-57378}, pages = {77 -- 98}, year = {2016}, abstract = {The present investigation targets the phenomenon commonly called control. Many languages including German and Polish employ non-finite clauses (besides finite clauses) as propositional complements. The subject of these complement clauses is left unexpressed and must generally be interpreted co-referentially with the subject or object of the matrix clause (subject or object control). However. there are also infinitive-selecting verbs that do not allow for a co- referential interpretation of the embedded subject - semantically, the embedded infinitives of these anti-control verbs are thus less dependent on or less unifiable with the matrix proposition. In Polish anti-control constructions, non-finite complements are overtly marked with the complementizer zeby, suggesting that they are structurally more complex (namely. containing a C-projection) than the non-finite complements in control constructions lacking zeby (modulo special contexts. viz. 'control switch'). In a comparative perspective, the paper brings corpuslinguistic and experimental evidence to bear on the question whether surface appearances notwithstanding, the infinitival complements of anti-control verbs in German should similarly be analyzed as truly sentential, i.e., C-headed structures.}, language = {en} }