Professor Shoko Hamano published a chapter in the book Movement Theory of Control, Norbert Hornstein and Maria Polinsky, editors (Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2010) . The chapter, entitled “Framing the syntax of control in Japanese (and English)” (pp. 184-210) is coauthored with Stanley Dubinsky. The following is from the book.
Natural languages offer many examples of “displacement,” i.e. constructions in which a non-local expression is critical for some grammatical end. Two central examples include phenomena such as raising and passive on the one hand, and control on the other. Though each phenomenon is an example of displacement, they have been theoretically distinguished. This paper, exploring Control properties of Japanese adverbial clauses consisting of an accusative NP and a locative PP headed by ni, supports the opposing view that the operations that generate the two constructions are the same.
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