33.2262, Books: Syntax in the Treetops: Miyagawa

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Subject: 33.2262, Books: Syntax in the Treetops: Miyagawa

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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 23:26:05
From: Judith Bullent [jbullent at mit.edu]
Subject: Syntax in the Treetops: Miyagawa

 


Title: Syntax in the Treetops 
Series Title: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: MIT Press
	   http://mitpress.mit.edu/
	

Book URL: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/syntax-treetops 


Author: Shigeru Miyagawa

Paperback: ISBN:  9780262543491 Pages: 256 Price: U.S. $ 50


Abstract:

In Syntax in the Treetops, Shigeru Miyagawa proposes that syntax extends into
the domain of discourse by making linkages between core syntax and the
conversational participants. Miyagawa draws on evidence for this extended
syntactic structure from a wide variety of languages, including Basque,
Japanese, Italian, Magahi, Newari, Romanian, and Spanish, as well as the
language of children with autism. His proposal for what happens at the highest
level of the tree structure used by linguists to represent the hierarchical
relationships within sentences—“in the treetops”—offers a unique contribution
to the new area of study sometimes known as “syntacticization of discourse.”

Miyagawa's main point is that syntax provides the basic framework that makes
possible the performance of a speech act and the conveyance of meaning;
although the role that syntax plays for speech acts is modest, it is critical.
He proposes that the speaker-addressee layer and the Commitment Phrase (the
speaker's commitment to the addressee of the truthfulness of the proposition)
occur together in the syntactic treetops. In each succeeding chapter, Miyagawa
examines the working of each layer of the tree and how they interact.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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