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

by Shigeru Miyagawa

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. An unusual property of human language is the existence of movement operations. Modern syntactic theory from its inception has dealt with the puzzle of why movement should occur. In this monograph, Shigeru Miyagawa combines this question with another, that of the occurrence of agreement systems...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262513552
• ISBN13: 9780262513555
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher