Why Agree? Why Move?: Unifying Agreement-Based and Discourse-Configurational Languages (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs) [Paperback]

Shigeru Miyagawa (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0262513552 | ISBN-13: 978-0262513555 | Publication Date: October 30, 2009 | Edition: 1

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.

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Review

"Miyagawa goes straight to the heart of the crucial questions of linguistics: how are natural human languages the same, and in what ways can they be different? To see how he compares and substantially unifies the syntax of case-marking, head-final languages like Japanese, with agreement-rich, head-initial languages, like English and Bantu informs this powerful book. It is rare to see this even attempted with such sophistication, much less achieved. I learned a lot."--Mark Baker, Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University

About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: The MIT Press; 1 edition (October 30, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0262513552
• ISBN-13: 978-0262513555
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #995,117 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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