This book uses data from English, Mandarin Chinese, and Modern Greek to develop a new theory of control structures that relates them to restructuring and the semantics of the embedding verb. The theory has implications both for clausal structure and for the relationship between form and meaning in natural language.

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Exhaustive control as functional restructuring


• 3: The semantics of restructuring: Verb meaning, variable binding, and clausal architecture


• 4: Explaining the mixed properties of want


• 5: Control, restructuring, and temporal interpretation


• 6: Control and restructuring in Mandarin Chinese


• 7: Control and restructuring in Greek


• 8: Conclusion

Thomas Grano is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Indiana University. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2012, and he specializes in semantics and syntax, with particular attention to clausal complementation, gradability and comparison, and Mandarin Chinese. His work has appeared in journals such as Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, and Natural Language Semantics.