Language Arts & Disciplines, Linguistics

Why Agree? Why Move?: Unifying Agreement-Based and Discourse Configurational Languages

Name: Why Agree? Why Move?: Unifying Agreement-Based and Discourse Configurational Languages
Author: Shigeru Miyagawa
ISBN: 9780262013611

by Shigeru Miyagawa

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Synopsis

An argument that not only do movement and agreement occur in every language, they also work in tandem to imbue natural language with enormous expressive power.

About 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 Structure and Case Marking in Japanese and the coeditor of Oxford Handbook of Japanese Linguistics.