Agreement Beyond Phi

Bibliographic Data

ID23399199
AuthorsShigeru Miyagawa (0000-0003-0015-6569, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages246
Publication date2017-03-24
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueAgreement Beyond Phi (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7551/mitpress/10958.001.0001
OpenAlexW2909944682
Open LibraryOL29761748M
ISBN9780262338639
LanguageEN
Citations received57

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.

Agreement · Alternation (linguistics) · Argument (complex analysis) · Ellipsis (linguistics) · Focus (optics) · Generative grammar · Linguistics · Minimalist program · Physics · Syntax · Theoretical linguistics · Topicalization · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Government-binding theory (Linguistics) · Grammar, Comparative and general · Japanese language, syntax

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