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:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

An argument that agreement and agreementless languages are unified under an expanded view of grammatical features including both phi-features and certain discourse configurational features.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Strong Uniformity 1

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 Strong Uniformity: An Instantiation of the Uniformity Principle 2

1.2.1 Examples of Typology Based on Strong Uniformity 3

1.2.1.1 δ-Feature al T 5

1.2.1.2 Agreement at C: Dinka 9

1.3 Outline of the Monograph 10

2.1 Agreement at C: Japanese 19

2.2 Allocutive Agreement 22

2.2.1 Politeness Marking in Japanese as Allocutive Agreement 26

2.2.2 Further Evidence for the Speech Act Projection: Jingpo and Newari 30

2.2.2.1 Jingpo 30

2.2.2.2 Newari 32

2.3 Two Counterexamples 34

2.4 Root Phenomena 36

2.4.1 Attitudinal and Style Adverbs in English 42

2.4.2 The Relative Clause: Another Root 44

2.5 Types of Topicalization 45

2.6 Topicalization and Relative Clauses 53

2.7 Conclusion 55

3 Pro-Drop, E-Type Pronouns, and Agreement 57

3.1 Introduction 57

3.2 Agreement in Chinese 61

3.2.1 Anaphor Binding and Blocking 64

3.2.2 Subject pro in Chinese 68

3.2.3 Chinese Subject pro as a Weak Pronoun 73

3.2.4 On J. Huang's (1984) Generalized Control Rule 75

3.3 Malayalam 77

3.3.1 Binding of Taan 'Self/You' 77

3.3.2 Blocking 78

3.4 Toward a Unified Analysis 80

3.4.1 Unified Account Based on pro 81

3.4.2 Evidence That the Sloppy Interpretation Cannot Be Due to Argument Ellipsis 83

3.4.3 On Hoji (1998) 85

3.5 E-Type Pronouns and Agreement 86

3.6 Large-Scale Survey of Chinese and Japanese Speakers for Sloppy Interpretation 91

3.6.1 Japanese Study 92

3.6.2 Chinese Study 95

3.7 Anaphoric Binding in Japanese and POV 98

3.8 Conclusion 102

4 On the Distribution and Structure of 'Why' 105

4.1 Introduction 105

4.2 'Why' as a Base-Generated Wh-Adjunct 107

4.2.1 A Gap in the Paradigm 107

4.3 Three Observations about Naze 'Why' 111

4.4 'Why' Moves (Shlonsky and Soare 2011) 114

4.4.1 Problem for the External-Merge Hypothesis: 'Why' Apparently Always Moves 115

4.4.2 Evidence from Chinese for 'Why' Movement 118

4.5 The Structure of 'Why' 119

4.6 Anti-Superiority and the Structure of 'Why' 121

4.7 Evidence That Naze Can Occur Low in the Structure 124

4.8 The Two-Tier Movement Analysis of 'Why' 127

4.8.1 Why Chinese Does Not Have the Two-Tier Movement of 'Why' 132

4.9 Use of 'What' for 'Why' 134

4.9.1 'What' Adjunct Questions in Japanese 135

4.10 On the Double-0 Constraint and the Nani-o 'What' Construction 140

4.10.1 Double-0 Constraint 142

4.10.2 Surface DOC, Deep DOC 144

4.10.3 Nani-o and the DOC 146

4.11 Conclusion 148

5 Ga/No Conversion, Strong Uniformity, and Focus 149

5.1 Introduction 149

5.2 Miyagawa (2013) 150

5.3 D-Licensing of the Genitive Case 151

5.4 A Different Kind of Genitive: Genitive of Dependent Tense 154

5.4.1 Dependent Tense and the Genitive 156

5.5 Strong Uniformity and Scrambling 160

5.6 Focus and Genitive 163

5.6.1 Focus at ν 165

5.7 Activation of the δ-Feature 166

5.7.1 Focus and Case (Miyagawa, Nishioka, and Zeijlstra 2016) 168

5.7.2 Ga/No Conversion, Focus, and Case Agreement 174

5.7.3 Ga/No Conversion and Focus on Internal Arguments 175

5.8 Ga/No Conversion and Interpretation 177

5.9 Conclusion 179

6 Concluding Remarks 181.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262338639

0262338637

OCLC:

979858422

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access