Agreement beyond Phi / / Shigeru Miyagawa

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910529822503321
• Autore: Miyagawa Shigeru
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, : The MIT Press, 2017; Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2017]
• ISBN: 9780262035880; 026203588X; 9780262338646; 0262338645
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (227 pages)
• Collana: Linguistic inquiry monographs ; ; 75
• Disciplina: 495.6/5
• Soggetti: Grammar, Comparative and general - Agreement; Japanese language - Agreement; Japanese language - Syntax; Discourse markers; Government-binding theory (Linguistics); Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Strong Uniformity -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Strong Uniformity: An Instantiation of the Uniformity Principle -- 1.3 Outline of the Monograph -- 2 Allocutive Agreement and the Root -- 2.1 Agreement at C: Japanese -- 2.2 Allocutive Agreement -- 2.3 Two Counterexamples -- 2.4 Root Phenomena -- 2.5 Types of Topicalization -- 2.6 Topicalization and Relative Clauses -- 2.7 Conclusion -- 3 Pro-Drop, E-Type Pronouns, and Agreement -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Agreement in Chinese -- 3.3 Malayalam -- 3.4 Toward a Unified Analysis -- 3.5 E-Type Pronouns and Agreement -- 3.6 Large-Scale Survey of Chinese and Japanese Speakers for Sloppy Interpretation -- 3.7 Anaphoric Binding in Japanese and POV -- 3.8 Conclusion -- 4 On the Distribution and Structure of 'Why' -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 'Why' as a Base-Generated Wh-Adjunct -- 4.3 ; Three Observations about Naze 'Why' -- 4.4 'Why' Moves (Shlonsky and Soare 2011) -- 4.5 The Structure of 'Why' -- 4.6 Anti-Superiority and the Structure of 'Why' -- 4.7 Evidence That Naze Can Occur Low in the Structure -- 4.8 The Two-Tier Movement Analysis of 'Why' -- 4.9 Use of 'What' for 'Why' -- 4.10 On the Double-O Constraint and the Nani-o 'What' Construction -- 4.11 Conclusion -- 5 Ga/No Conversion, Strong Uniformity, and Focus -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Miyagawa (2013) -- 5.3 D-Licensing of the Genitive Case -- 5.4 A Different Kind of Genitive: Genitive of Dependent Tense -- 5.5 Strong Uniformity and Scrambling -- 5.6 Focus and Genitive -- 5.7 Activation of the δ-Feature -- 5.8 Ga/No Conversion and Interpretation -- 5.9 Conclusion -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- Linguistic Inquiry Monographs.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.