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Agreement Beyond Phi (Paperback)
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Agreement Beyond Phi (Paperback)
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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 central
role as the driver of movement and other narrow-syntax operations.
In this book, Shigeru Miyagawa continues his investigation into a
computational equivalent for agreement in agreementless languages
such as Japanese. Miyagawa extends his theory of Strong Uniformity,
introduced in his earlier book, Why Agree? Why Move? Unifying
Agreement-Based and Discourse-Configurational Languages (MIT
Press). He argues that agreement and agreementless languages are
unified under an expanded view of grammatical features including
both phi-features and discourse configurational features of topic
and focus. He looks at various combinations of these two
grammatical features across a number of languages and phenomena,
including allocutive agreement, root phenomena, topicalization,
"why" questions, and case alternation.
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