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In this paper, I shall describe a construction in Turkish which seems to involve a non-local application of an otherwise local process: NP-movement of an embedded object to matrix subject position. The construction in question involves a small number of subject control verbs and their infinitival complements.
Research for this paper has been funded in part by the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities, in form of a “Fellowship for Recent PhDs” awarded by the ACLS, and a grant by the Institute of Turkish Studies. I would like to thank the members of the MIT Linguistics community for their hospitality during the period of my leave from Syracuse University, during which this paper was written, and to Syracuse University for granting me a research leave. I am grateful to Ash Göksel, Sumru Ozsoy, Engin Sezer, Gönül Alpay Tekin, sinasi Tekin, and Mehmet Yanilmaz for sharing their native judgements with me, to Noam Chomsky, Eva Csato Johanson, Gabriella Hermon, Susumu Kuno, Richard Larson, Beth Levin, David Pesetsky, and Luigi Rizzi for very helpful discussions, to Myron Lichtblau for his help with the Spanish data, and to Robert Freidin for giving me the opportunity to present this paper to the Princeton Workshop on Comparative Grammars 1989 as well as for his comments on a previous draft of this paper. All errors of fact and interpretation are my own.
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Kornfilt, J. (1996). NP-Movement and “Restructuring”. In: Freidin, R. (eds) Current Issues in Comparative Grammar. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0135-3_6
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