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Agreement Beyond Phi: Volume 75
Shigeru Miyagawa
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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. 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 ... Read more
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. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262533324
SKU
V9780262533324
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About Shigeru Miyagawa
Shigeru Miyagawa is Professor of Linguistics and Kochi-Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture at MIT. He is the author of Why Agree? Why Move? Unifying Agreement-Based and Discourse-Configurational Languages (MIT Press).
Reviews for Agreement Beyond Phi: Volume 75
The book will be a valuable guide to researchers studying these phenomena in all languages and initiates a new research agenda in the investigation of clause structure, agreement, Case, discourse configurationality and their typology. -Language