Video 15.2: Subject to Object Raising and Object Control

Andrew Carnie presents Syntax: A Generative Introduction 4E. Wiley Blackwell. Video 15.2: Subject to Object Raising and Object Control Subject to object raising (e.g. "I want Sarah to leave") is contrasted with Object control (e.g. "I persuaded Sarah to leave"). In the object control sentence "Sarah" appears to have two theta roles in violation of the theta criterion. An analysis is given where Object control sentences involve a PRO as the subject of the embedded clause and Subject to Object raising involves moving the embedded subject from the lower clause into the specifier of the AgrOP in the main clause. The idiom test is used to distinguish the two cases.