Control into conjunctive participle clauses

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The book investigates Adjunct Control in Assamese, an Indo-Aryan language spoken by around 15 million people in North India, using the Minimalist Program of syntactic theory. Adjunct Control refers to the co-referential relationship between subjects in the matrix and adjunct clauses. The focus is on non-finite Conjunctive Participle (CNP) clauses in Assamese. Four types of Adjunct Control are analyzed: (i) Forward Control, where only the matrix subject is pronounced; (ii) Backward Control, with only the subordinate subject pronounced; (iii) Copy Control, in which both subjects are pronounced; and (iv) Expletive Control, involving expletive control elements. While Forward Control is common across languages, Assamese also permits the other three less frequent structures. The author treats Adjunct Control as movement and details the conditions influencing each control type. The theoretical implications are emphasized. This work is both empirically and theoretically distinctive, being the first monograph on Assamese generative syntax and the first to examine control structures in such depth within a single understudied language. Additionally, it includes data from Telugu, Bengali, Konkani, Marathi, Tamil, and Hindi.