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This paper re-examines the syntax of control through the lens of the Miracle Creed Framework (MCF; Chomsky 2023, 2024), a derivationally minimal approach that dispenses with PRO and movement into θ-positions. Under MCF, control is derived via a single, phase-internal identity mechanism—External Merge plus Form Copy—consistent with the Duality of Semantics and tightly constrained by locality. This framework captures canonical subject control, oblique control, gerundive subjects, and adjunct control without resorting to null pronominals or logophoric anchoring, thereby highlighting its simplicity, locality, and theoretical economy. It also reinterprets phenomena traditionally treated as Non-Obligatory Control (NOC), showing that they follow from the same structural principles as other control configurations. At the same time, certain peripheral phenomena remain empirical challenges. Possible avenues for addressing these include semantic enrichment for PC and restructuring-based accounts for finite control, though such extensions must preserve the framework’s strict locality and identity conditions. The proposed analysis thus offers a unified and empirically grounded theory of control while delineating the limits of its explanatory reach.