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Why agree? Why move? : unifying agreement-based and discourse-configurational languages
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Why agree? Why move? : unifying agreement-based and discourse-configurational languages

Author: Shigeru Miyagawa
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.
Series: Linguistic inquiry monographs, 54.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Shigeru Miyagawa
ISBN: 9780262013611 9780262513555 0262013614 0262513552
OCLC Number: 318645825
Description: xiv, 182 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Why agree? --
Why move? --
Unifying A-movements --
[Alpha]P, [Phi]-features, and the A/Ā distinction --
Wh-questions and focus.
Series Title: Linguistic inquiry monographs, 54.
Responsibility: Shigeru Miyagawa.
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"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 Read more...

 
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