constructions as two-place Stative predicates, as opposed to the analysis of them as one-place in FSUG, provides … in (20a) the watch is a patient, the single argument of a single-argument stative verb of state or condition … or more nuclei combine to form a single, com- plex nucleus with a single set of core arguments. This is

constructions as two-place stative predicates, as opposed to the analysis of them as one-place in FSUG, provides … in (20a) the watch is a patient, the single argument of a single-argument stative verb of state or condition … or more nuclei combine to form a single, com- plex nucleus with a single set of core arguments. This is

raising predicate. Arguments of the control predicate, on the other hand, have to fulfill their semantic requirements, and interpreted as the argument of the In linguistics, control is a construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by some expression in context. Stereotypical instances of control involve verbs. A superordinate verb "controls" the arguments of a subordinate, nonfinite verb. Control was intensively studied in the government and binding framework in the 1980s, and much of the terminology from that era is a. Fred asked you to read it. - asked is an object control verb. b. Fred expects you to read it. - expects is a raising-to-object verb. a. Jim forced her to say it. - forced is an object control verb. b. Jim believed her to have said it. - believes is a raising-to-object verb. The control predicates ask and force semantically select their object arguments, whereas the raising-to-object verbs do not. Instead, the object of the raising verb appears to have "risen" from the subject position of the embedded predicate, in this case from the embedded predicates to read and to have said. In other words, the embedded predicate is semantically selecting the argument of the matrix predicate. What this means is that while a raising-to-object verb takes an object dependent, that dependent is not a semantic argument of that raising verb. The distinction becomes apparent when one considers that a control predicate like ask requires its object to be an animate entity, whereas a raising-to-object predicate like expects places no semantic limitations on its object dependent.