The Ling Space | What Changes in a Sentence When We Swap Verbs? Raising vs. Control Verbs @thelingspace | Uploaded 8 years ago | Updated 3 hours ago
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!

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Future Tense: youtu.be/al5SJSbIyvM

Other of our syntax videos:
Referential Treatment - Binding Theory: youtu.be/9sqm_cex4kA
Goldilocks and the Three Nouns - Theta Theory: http://youtu.be/thFkoo1YmW0
Trace Evidence - Syntactic Movement: http://youtu.be/x5iBbSkp8rk

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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!