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Author Miyagawa, Shigeru, author

Title Agreement beyond Phi / Shigeru Miyagawa
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 75
Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 75.
Contents 880-01 Series Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction: Strong Uniformity; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Strong Uniformity: An Instantiation of the Uniformity Principle; 1.3 Outline of the Monograph; 2 Allocutive Agreement and the Root; 2.1 Agreement at C: Japanese; 2.2 Allocutive Agreement; 2.3 Two Counterexamples; 2.4 Root Phenomena; 2.5 Types of Topicalization; 2.6 Topicalization and Relative Clauses; 2.7 Conclusion; 3 Pro-Drop, E-Type Pronouns, and Agreement; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Agreement in Chinese; 3.3 Malayalam; 3.4 Toward a Unified Analysis; 3.5 E-Type Pronouns and Agreement
880-01/(S 4.10 On the Double-O Constraint and the Nani-o 'What' Construction4.11 Conclusion; 5 Ga/No Conversion, Strong Uniformity, and Focus; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Miyagawa (2013); 5.3 D-Licensing of the Genitive Case; 5.4 A Different Kind of Genitive: Genitive of Dependent Tense; 5.5 Strong Uniformity and Scrambling; 5.6 Focus and Genitive; 5.7 Activation of the δ-Feature; 5.8 Ga/No Conversion and Interpretation; 5.9 Conclusion; 6 Concluding Remarks; Notes; References; Name Index; Subject Index; Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
3.6 Large-Scale Survey of Chinese and Japanese Speakers for Sloppy Interpretation3.7 Anaphoric Binding in Japanese and POV; 3.8 Conclusion; 4 On the Distribution and Structure of 'Why'; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 'Why' as a Base-Generated Wh-Adjunct; 4.3 Three Observations about Naze 'Why'; 4.4 'Why' Moves (Shlonsky and Soare 2011); 4.5 The Structure of 'Why'; 4.6 Anti-Superiority and the Structure of 'Why'; 4.7 Evidence That Naze Can Occur Low in the Structure; 4.8 The Two-Tier Movement Analysis of 'Why'; 4.9 Use of 'What' for 'Why'
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
Analysis LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Agreement.
Japanese language -- Agreement
Japanese language -- Syntax
Discourse markers.
Government-binding theory (Linguistics)
Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
Foreign Language Study / Japanese.
Language Arts & Disciplines / Grammar & Punctuation.
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics.
Discourse markers
Government-binding theory (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Agreement
Japanese language -- Syntax
Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016030743
ISBN 9780262338639
0262338637