Abstract
This paper presents a Relational Grammar analysis of the Polish Object Control Construction (OCC) and considers the viability of clause reduction as a universal analysis of reduced constructions. Polish OCC sentences parallel Romance reduced sentences in exhibiting both monoclausal and biclausal characteristics. To the extent that the OCC and reduced constructions in other languages are a reflex of a single phenomenon, the Polish data demonstrate that any successful universal analysis should be general enough to allow for a variety of mono- and biclausal effects cross-linguistically and must allow for simultaneous mono- and biclausal effects. Since Polish and Romance reduced constructions show similar syntactic effects and since analyses which appeal to morphology or place strong emphasis on word order do not extend to the OCC, the Polish data argue that an analysis which is independent of surface expression is more explanatory.
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