Cedrick Boeckx is Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA), and a member of the Center for Theoretical Linguistics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Norbert Hornstein is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Jairo Nunes is Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

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• 1. Introduction; 2. Some historical background; 3. Basic properties of the Movement Theory of Control; 4. Empirical advantages; 5. Empirical challenges and solutions; 6. On non-obligatory control; 7. Some notes on semantic approaches to control; 8. The movement theory of control and the minimalist program.

Cedrick Boeckx is Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA), and a member of the Center for Theoretical Linguistics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Norbert Hornstein is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Jairo Nunes is Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

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• 1. Introduction; 2. Some historical background; 3. Basic properties of the Movement Theory of Control; 4. Empirical advantages; 5. Empirical challenges and solutions; 6. On non-obligatory control; 7. Some notes on semantic approaches to control; 8. The movement theory of control and the minimalist program.

Cedrick Boeckx is Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA), and a member of the Center for Theoretical Linguistics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Norbert Hornstein is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Jairo Nunes is Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

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• 1. Introduction; 2. Some historical background; 3. Basic properties of the Movement Theory of Control; 4. Empirical advantages; 5. Empirical challenges and solutions; 6. On non-obligatory control; 7. Some notes on semantic approaches to control; 8. The movement theory of control and the minimalist program.