What Changes in a Sentence When We Swap Verbs? Raising vs. Control Verbs

How does a sentence's structure change when you swap one word for another? How can we know what those changes are? In this week's episode, we talk about raising and control verbs: what they are, how we can tell that they're different, and what they can tell us about how syntax works. This is Topic #52! This week's tag language: Igbo! Last episode: Future Tense:    • What Makes a Sentence True or False? Predi...   Other of our syntax videos: Referential Treatment - Binding Theory:    • Binding Theory and Interpreting Pronouns   Goldilocks and the Three Nouns - Theta Theory:    • Theta Roles   Trace Evidence - Syntactic Movement:    • Syntactic Movement and Traces   Find us on all the social media worlds: Tumblr:   / thelingspace   Twitter:   / thelingspace   Facebook:   / thelingspace   And at our website, http://www.thelingspace.com/ ! You can also find our store at the website, http://www.thelingspace.com/store/ Our website also has extra content about this week's topic at http://www.thelingspace.com/episode-52/ We also have forums to discuss this episode, and linguistics more generally. Sources: If you want to know more about this sort of syntactic analysis, we recommend Andrew Carnie's Syntax: A Generative Introduction. It's a pretty good setup! Looking forward to next week!