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Agreement beyond Phi
- Title
- Agreement beyond Phi / Shigeru Miyagawa.
- Author
- Miyagawa, Shigeru
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 223 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Much attention in theoretical linguistics in the generative and Minimalist traditions is concerned with issues directly or indirectly related to movement. The EPP (extended projection principle), introduced by Chomsky in 1981, appeared to coincide with morphological agreement, and agreement came to play a central role as the driver of movement and other narrow-syntax operations. In this book, Shigeru Miyagawa continues his investigation into a computational equivalent for agreement in agreementless languages such as Japanese. Miyagawa extends his theory of Strong Uniformity, introduced in his earlier book, Why Agree? Why Move? Unifying Agreement-Based and Discourse-Configurational Languages (MIT Press). He argues that agreement and agreementless languages are unified under an expanded view of grammatical features including both phi-features and discourse configurational features of topic and focus. He looks at various combinations of these two grammatical features across a number of languages and phenomena, including allocutive agreement, root phenomena, topicalization, "why" questions, and case alternation.
- Series Statement
- Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 75
- Uniform Title
- Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 75.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Introduction : strong uniformity -- Allocutive agreement and the root -- Pro-drop, E-type pronouns, and agreement -- On the distribution and structure of 'why' -- Ga/No conversion, strong uniformity, and focus -- Concluding remarks.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-4926
- ISBN
- 9780262035880
- 026203588X
- 9780262533324
- 0262533324
- LCCN
- 2016030743
- OCLC
- 959035888
- Author
- Miyagawa, Shigeru, author.
- Title
- Agreement beyond Phi / Shigeru Miyagawa.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 75Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 75.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-4926