Modelling Control Theory

该项目的主要目标是开发一个全面的语法控制理论的基础上的阶段模型。因此，我们将研究向前和向后控制（BC）。BC是一种最近才进入讨论焦点的现象，似乎是评估控制理论的有用工具。项目的这一部分涉及有关真实的BC的识别和BC可用性方面的不同语言分类的研究。我们想要追求的想法是，后者与语言中的附着双链的可用性相关。我们要探讨的第二个主要假设是BC可以简化为长距离一致（LDA）。就前向控制而言，我们希望开发一种混合控制理论，它结合了基于PRO的控制理论和运动控制理论的优点。我们设想了一种理论，该理论允许控制结构中的嵌入主题在同意下，只要被控制者和控制者在句法推导中同时可访问。因此，该理论在一定程度上涉及运动，因为控制者和受控者之间的潜在非局部依赖性必须在局部派生框架中桥接。然而，由于被控制者不必像运动控制理论那样移动得那么远，因此可以避免在那里出现的局部性问题。该项目想要做的是详细阐述这个想法，并根据可以找到的不同类型的控制结构对其进行调整。

The main goal of the project is to develop a comprehensive syntactic theory of control based on the phase model. Hence, we will investigate both forward and backward control (BC). BC is a phenomenon which has only recently entered the limelight of discussion and seems to be a useful tool to evaluate theories of control. This part of the project involves research concerning the identification of real BC and the classification of different languages with respect to the availability of BC. The idea we would like to pursue is that the latter correlates with the availability of clitic doubling chains in a language. The second major hypothesis we would like to explore is that BC can be reduced to Long Distance Agree (LDA). As far as forward control is concerned, we would like to develop a hybrid theory of control which combines advantages of both the PRO-based theories of control and the movement theory of control. We envisage a theory which licenses the embedded subject in control structures under Agree as soon as controllee and controller are at the same time accessible in the syntactic derivation. Hence, the theory involves movement to some extent, since the underlying non-local dependency between controller and controllee must be bridged in a local derivational framework. However, since the controllee does not have to move as far as in the movement theory of control, the locality problems that arise there will be avoided. What the project wants to do is elaborate this idea and adjust it to the different types of control structures that can be found.