@inproceedings{68741caba8404e9289b42d417f019ffd,
title = "Some notes on falloir, devoir, and the theory of control",
abstract = "This article sheds new light on the structure and meaning of sentences containing the French modal verbs devoir and falloir, as well as on the syntax and semantics of Control generally. Well-known and previously unnoticed empirical facts are examined that support the author's novel contention that falloir and devoir are syntactically and semantically ambiguous. These data are also argued to offer indirect support for the analysis of Control clauses recently developed in Reed (2014: Ch. 6 and 7), according to which there is a theoretical primitive (pro) and it is associated with a {"}minimal{"}feature bundle consisting of just [-expletive] and [+N] syntactic features, with a separate, post-syntactic Theory of Control determining its understood phi-features.",
author = "Reed, {Lisa A.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 John Benjamins Publishing Company.",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1075/rllt.9.18ree",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing Company",
pages = "341--360",
editor = "Christina Christina and {Den Dikken}, Marcel and Montoya, {Ignacio L.} and Teresa O'Neill",
booktitle = "Romance Linguistics 2013. Selected papers from the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New York, 17�19 April, 2013",
address = "Netherlands",
}