Agreement Beyond Phi
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- Paperback
246 pages
- Release Date
24 March 2017
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.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 c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262533324 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262533324 |
| Author: | Shigeru Miyagawa |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 246 |
| Release Date: | 24 March 2017 |
| Weight: | 342g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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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.
—LanguageAbout The Author
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).
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