control verb

noun

control verb

noun
1

Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A verb which takes multiple arguments, one of which is another verb, such that one of the control verb's arguments (possibly its subject) is syntactically both an argument of the control verb and an argument of the other verb.

Related terms
object-control, subject-control

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