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The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibilities of A-movement into θ-positions within the Minimalist theory and adapt them to Control Structures. Minimalist theory removes the D-structure and dispenses with θ-criterion. This enables us to take θ-roles as features that are able to license movement In fact, it has been argued in several recent works that there are grammatical instances of movement into θ-positions (Boskovic 1994, Lasnik 1995b, Boskovic & Dakahashi 1998). This can be explained within the Minimalist theory if θ-roles are formal features capable of driving movement. I will investigate the consequences of treating PRO as a NP-trace in Homstein's analysis(1999) and the proposal of Manzini & Rousssou(2000) that Control corresponds to a derivation in which one argument DP attracts two (or more) different predicates.