Agreement beyond Phi / Shigeru Miyagawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miyagawa, Shigeru, author.

Series:

Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 75.

Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 75

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Agreement.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Japanese language--Agreement.

Japanese language.

Japanese language--Syntax.

Discourse markers.

Government-binding theory (Linguistics).

Minimalist theory (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

xvii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780262035880

026203588X

9780262533324

0262533324

OCLC:

959035888