9 = verb followed by a gerund OR a noun + an infinitive 13 = verb followed by a gerund OR an infinitive with a difference in meaning 14 = verb followed by a gerund OR an infinitive with little difference in meaning admit admetre He admitted cheating on the test. advise [9] aconsellar The doctor generally advised drinking low-fat milk. The doctor advised me to drink low-fat milk. allow [9] perme...

The paper constitutes a contribution to semantically based research on the so called ‘syntactic alternations’, defined as “structurally and/or lexically different ways say functionally very similar things” (Gries 2017: 8). More specifically, study is concerned with Polish verbal predicates which accept both gerundive and infinitival complement, difference between these two alternatives being ma...

This result is unsurprising as object control is classified as a so-called ‘obligatory control’ construction in which the ec’s reference is restricted to a single, local, structurally higher antecedent (Williams 1980). Since it is grammatically regulated, pragmatics should not be able to affect its interpretation. If we take another sub-type of control, however, such as a controlled verbal geru...