Idan Landau

Books by this Author

A Selectional Theory of Adjunct Control
By Idan Landau
Control in adjuncts involves a complex interaction of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, which so far has resisted systematic analysis. In this book, Idan Landau offers the first comprehensive account of adjunct control. Extending the framework developed in his earlier book, A Two-Tiered Theory of Control, Landau analyzes ten different types of adjuncts and shows that they fall into two...
A Two-Tiered Theory of Control
By Idan Landau
This book revives and reinterprets a persistent intuition running through much of the classical work: that the unitary appearance of Obligatory Control into complements conceals an underlying duality of structure and mechanism. Idan Landau argues that control complements divide into two types: In attitude contexts, control is established by logophoric anchoring, while non-attitude contexts it...

Journal Articles by this Author

The Explicit Syntax of Implicit Arguments
Linguistic Inquiry
Volume 41, Issue 3 (Summer 2010)
By Idan Landau
Against The Null Comitative Analysis of Partial Control
Linguistic Inquiry
Volume 47, Issue 3 (Summer 2016)
By Idan Landau
Nonobligatory Control with Communication Verbs: New Evidence and Implications
Linguistic Inquiry
Volume 51, Issue 1 (Winter 2020)
By Idan Landau
On the Nonexistence of Verb-Stranding VP-Ellipsis
Linguistic Inquiry
Volume 51, Issue 2 (Spring 2020)
By Idan Landau
Constraining Head-Stranding Ellipsis
Linguistic Inquiry
Volume 51, Issue 2 (Spring 2020)
By Idan Landau