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52 CARMEN DOBROVIE-SORINconfigurations, since the latter rely on NP movement which is an anaphoricrelation. Koster argues that this prediction is correct in Dutch.The Balkan subjunctive constitutes further evidence in favor of bringing togethercontrol and raising:(16) a. Copiii pot sa ajunga Romchildren.the may sa arrive-3PL.SUBJdintr -o clipa in alta.from one moment in another"The children may arrive from one moment to another.'b. Tbf/' baiet,iii s -au nimeritall boys.the REFL have-3PL happen-PARTsa fie t( bolnavi.sa be-3PL.SUBJ ill'All the boys happened to be ill.'c. Copiii faij par sa fie tj foarte obosifi.children.the your seem sa be-3.SG.SUBJ very tired.'Your children seem to be very tired.'(17) Decata mogat da pristignat vseki moment. Blgsame gloss as (16a)These examples show that Balkan subjunctives are transparent for raising tosubject. " The parallelism between obligatory control and raising comes as asurprise within the standard GB analysis, but it is expected within the alternativeapproach that attempts to reduce control to anaphoric binding.4. From GB to minimalism: anaphoric binding,NP movement, and Move FLet us now compare the GB account proposed here with those minimalistproposals that are conceptually close to it, in particular Hornstein (1999) andManzini and Roussou (1998). These three proposals share the followingassumptions: (i) elimination of PRO from the theory of grammar; (ii) reductionof control to anaphoric binding; and (iii) unification of control and subjectraising. It is important to note that within GB, the hypothesis in (ii) is both anempirical generalization and a theoretical characterization. On its empirical side,(ii) means that control phenomena show the same constraints as those exhibitedby the anaphoric relation between reflexive or reciprocal pronouns and theirantecedents. And within the GB model, anaphors are subject to principle A ofbinding theory. Since within minimalism binding theory and government haveno theoretical status, minimalist accounts assume only the empirical side of (ii)and treat anaphoric binding phenomena in terms of movement, which inevitablyleads to (iii). I have argued above that also within GB, the proposition in (iii) is