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Agreement Beyond Phi.

Miyagawa, Shigeru.

Agreement Beyond Phi. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (247 pages) - Linguistic Inquiry Monographs ; v.75 . - Linguistic Inquiry Monographs .

Intro -- Contents -- 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 -- 3.6 Large-Scale Survey of Chinese and Japanese Speakers for Sloppy Interpretation -- 3.7 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' -- 4.10 On the Double-O Constraint and the Nani-o 'What' Construction -- 4.11 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.

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.

9780262338639


Japanese language - Agreement.


Electronic books.

PL597.A35.M593 2017

495.6/5

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