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A question that is central to the study of control is how controlled infinitives are interpreted. Specifically, what is the semantic procedure associating the infinitive, or PRO, with the controller. Indeed, whether the significant relation is controller-infinitive or controller-PRO is already a contentious issue. There are two major schools of thought on these matters, which I will term the predicational and the propositional approaches.
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Landau, I. (2000). Control and Predication. In: Elements of Control. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 51. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3943-4_4
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