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Subject: Why Agree? Why Move?: Miyagawa
 

	
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Title: Why Agree? Why Move? 
Subtitle: Unifying Agreement-Based and Discourse Configurational Languages 
Series Title: Linguistic Inquiry Monograph  

Publication Year: 2009 
Publisher: MIT Press
	   http://mitpress.mit.edu/
	

Book URL: http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262513555 


Author: Shigeru Miyagawa

Hardback: ISBN: 0262013614 9780262013611 Pages: 200 Price: U.S. $ 50.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0262513552 9780262513555 Pages: 200 Price: U.S. $ 25.00


Abstract:

An unusual property of human language is the existence of movement
operations. Modern syntactic theory from its inception has dealt with the
puzzle of why movement should occur. In this monograph, Shigeru Miyagawa
combines this question with another, that of the occurrence of agreement
systems. Using data from a wide range of languages, he argues that movement
and agreement work in tandem to achieve a specific goal: to imbue natural
language with enormous expressive power. Without movement and agreement, he
contends, human language would be merely a shadow of itself, with severe
limitation on what can be expressed.

Miyagawa investigates a variety of languages, including English, Japanese,
Bantu languages, Romance languages, Finnish, and Chinese. He finds that
every language manifests some kind of agreement, some in the form of the
familiar person/number/gender system and others in the form of what Katalin
É. Kiss calls "discourse configurational" features such as topic and focus.
A key proposal of his argument is that the computational system in syntax
deals with the wide range of agreement types uniformly-- as if there were
just one system-- and an integral part of this computation turns out to be
movement. Why Agree? Why Move? is unique in proposing a unified system for
movement and agreement across language groups that are vastly diverse--
Bantu languages, East Asian languages, Indo-European languages, and others. 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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