Abstract
This paper is a contribution to the attempt to eliminate c-selection as an autonomous mechanism of grammar. We provide evidence against c-selection for different types of infinitival clauses and give an analysis of infinitival complementation based on the Case-theoretic account of the distribution of PRO, which we argue is superior to the standard binding-theoretic account. We argue that, like ECM infinitivals, control infinitivals can be of category IP. More precisely, we argue that as long as the CP status is not required by lexical properties independent of c-selection, control infinitivals not introduced by an overt complementizer are IPs. The IP status is forced on such infinitivals by the Principle of Economy of Representation.
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