Practical Grammar 9

Raising and Control

In this unit, we will extend the grammar to license sentences with verbs like 'try' and 'seems' which have interesting properties.

try (Control verb)

(1) Ingrid tried to buy olives.

seem(Raising verb)

(2) Ingrid seemed to buy olives.

• 'to' (the infinitive marker): assume that it is marked [IM:+].
• 'buy': [VFORM:INF]

   

Extended Coherence Condition [non-final version] (p. 138)

• All governable functions present in an f-structure must occur in the value of a local PRED feature.
• All functions that have a PRED value must have a theta role.