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Green, Georgia M. Williams, Timothy Kevin 2011-05-07T12:22:11Z 2011-05-07T12:22:11Z 10000-01-01 1995 The interpretation of control sentences can best be explained pragmatically, i.e., in terms of the beliefs and assumptions which the listener makes about what the speaker intended by the utterance. A listener identifies an entity as the referent of the unexpressed subject of infinitival and gerund complements by drawing inferences based on the partial semantic information contained in such sentences. The objectives of this thesis are to articulate a clear and precise theory of the interpretation of both non-obligatory and obligatory control sentences, to show that a pragmatic theory makes it possible to predict the choice of controller on the basis of interpretive strategy without stipulating the control behavior of different classes of verbs, and to compare this theory with previous syntactic and semantic theories. The syntactic/semantic framework assumed is the HPSG framework of Pollard and Sag (1994). Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:22:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9543770.pdf: 4817699 bytes, checksum: 7f2891ffd2c4982d7d29e23a981a795e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1995 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:40:11Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:17:09-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9543770 (UMI)AAI9543770 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/19898 eng Copyright 1995 Williams, Timothy Kevin Language, Linguistics A pragmatic account of control text Linguistics Linguistics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.