On the resilience of obligatory control in inflected infinitives under object control verbs

This study investigates the interpretation of inflected infinitives under object control verbs in European Portuguese. It contrasts behaviour two different types verbs, represented by obrigar ‘force’ and convencer ‘convince’, belonging each to one classes established Landau (2015). is argued that show a behaviour: whereas ‘convince’ do not maintain obligatory readings (as previously shown Barbosa, 2021), similar an reading maintained. empirical observation agreement with predictions (2015), extent that, set associates predicative control, inflection does block even though some further questions are raised Landau’s analysis. In present study, correlation between their semantics, availability non-controlled infinitives.