Why control of PRO in rationale clauses is not a relation between arguments
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On grammatical accounts, this indicates a relation between two arguments that ensures their coreference, for any assignment of values to variables. PRO in (1c), for example, would be related in this way to an argument that is linked to the role of trader in either (1a) or (1b). Such accounts have good motives, sketched in §3. But in this paper we make two objections, one syntactic and one semantic. The syntactic objection comes from remote control, as in (2). We can use (2) just like (1c), again to mean (1d) (Higgins 1973, Dowty 1989, Sag & Pollard 1991, Williams 2015). Yet in this case, we will argue in §4, there can be no local binder for PRO, when there isn’t one audible.
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