Infinitive vs. čtoby-clause: Choosing the strategy of sentential argument marking in Russian.

In this paper we are concerned with the factors underlying the opposition of infinitive and subjunctive complement clauses in Russian. We discuss two classes of complement-taking predicates – manipulative and desiderative predicates, arguing that the choice of infinitive vs. subjunctive can be explained for these predicates by the «binding hierarchy» [Givón 1980], but that the very sense of «binding» needs to be somewhat revised in order to fit the Russian data.