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The paper presents raising and control phenomena in Khwarshi (Tsezic/Northeast Caucasian). Despite the fact that all the arguments of nonfinite clauses, including subjects, can be locally case-licensed, Khwarshi possesses both (forward) raising and (forward) control configurations. Khwarshi raising and control differ with respect to standard diagnostics including argument structure of the matrix predicate, argument selection, interpretation of subject idioms and scope options. Moreover, control appears to be more restricted than raising: only subjects can be controlled but both subjects and objects can raise. The paper discusses theoretical implications of the findings and contributes to expanding the scope of raising and control by introducing data from a less-studied language.