Up to D[eb]ate on Raising and Control Part 2: The Empirical Range of the Constructions and Research on their Acquisition

This is the second part of a two-part article that reviews a number of the current debates regarding raising and control constructions. The issues addressed in this part include the spectrum of related raising (e.g. possessor raising, further raising) and control (partial, split, generic, super-equi) phenomena; cross-linguistic typology, including backward and copy constructions; and their acquisition in child language. The spectrum of RandC phenomena Current inquiry into RandC also includes analyses of less common constructions that are claimed to belong to each category. The raising class, beyond the standard RtoS and RtoO cases, may also include Raising out of tensed complements (referred to as Further Raising, Hyper-Raising, or Super-Raising) and Possessor Raising. The various distinctions made among control constructions include Obligatory Control (OC), Non-Obligatory Control (NOC), Partial Control (PC), Exhaustive Control (EC), Split Control, Arbitrary Control, and Super-Equi Constructions. This section will focus on some of the less familiar categories. Finally, the typology of RandC may include forms that differ in terms of which DP element is overt in the structure. Constructions in which the higher DP is overt are termed Forward Control, while those in which the lower DP is pronounced are called Backward Control.