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This paper re-examines the syntax of control through the lens of the Miracle Creed Framework (MCF; Chomsky 2023, 2024), a derivationally minimal approach that dispenses with PRO and movement into θ-positions. Under MCF, control is derived via a single, phase-internal identity mechanism—External Merge plus Form Copy—consistent with the Duality of Semantics and tightly constrained by locality. This framework captures canonical subject control, oblique control, gerundive subjects, and adjunct control without resorting to null pronominals or logophoric anchoring, thereby highlighting its simplicity, locality, and theoretical economy. It also reinterprets phenomena traditionally treated as Non-Obligatory Control (NOC), showing that they follow from the same structural principles as other control configurations. At the same time, certain peripheral phenomena remain empirical challenges. Possible avenues for addressing these include semantic enrichment for PC and restructuring-based accounts for finite control, though such extensions must preserve the framework’s strict locality and identity conditions. The proposed analysis thus offers a unified and empirically grounded theory of control while delineating the limits of its explanatory reach.

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I. Introduction
II. Previous Analyses
2.1 Movement Theory of Control (MTC)
2.2 Two-Tiered Theory of Control (TTC)
2.3. Form-Copy Theory (FC)
III. Proposed Analysis: A Derivationally Minimal Alternative
3.1 Control under the Miracle Creed Framework
3.2 Dissolving NOC: Reanalyzing Non-Obligatory Control as GerundiveClauses
3.3 Adjunct Control as Phase-Internal Identity
3.4 Challenges to the Miracle Creed Framework
IV. Conclusion
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• Kim, Jaejun [ Dongguk University ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810