本文旨在描述馬拉加西語的控制結構，並與「說」動詞的行為表現作對比。本研究指出，一個控制謂語會成分選擇(constituent-select)所帶的包孕句的時態標記，並允許一個非必須的標句詞ny 的出現，而且典型地排除出現於主語之後、加接於CP 的後置賓語子句。另一方面，「說」動詞並不會成分選擇共存結構的時態標記，它允許標句詞fa、而絕非ny 與mba 的出現，並且允許帶有強制性標句詞的後置CP加接子句。本文也將闡述區分論元與附加子句的重要性，因為這樣的區別有助於解釋動詞的次類劃分，例如mianatra 的「學習」類動詞並非選擇一個包孕子句，而是InflP 的附加結構。

My main purpose here is to describe control structures in Malagasy, contrasting their behavior with that of verbs of saying. It will transpire that on the one hand, a control predicate constituent-selects the tense-marker on the adjacently embedded structure, allows an optional complementizer ny ‘to, for-to’ and prototypically rules out a postposed sentential object labeled “CP adjunct clause”. On the other hand, a verb of saying does NOT constituent-select the tense-marker on the accompanying structure, allows a complementizer fa ‘that’—but NEVER the complementizer ny ‘to, for-to’ nor the complementizer mba ‘in order to, please’—and typically allows a postposed CP adjunct clause with an obligatory complementizer. The crucial importance of the distinction between an argument and an adjunct clause will be illustrated as such a distinction will help account for a subcategory of aspectual verbs, which requires not an embedded CP, but rather an InflP adjunct structure.