Why Agree? Why Move?: Unifying Agreement-Based and Discourse-Configurational Languages: 54 - Softcover

Miyagawa, Shigeru

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262513552 ISBN 13: 9780262513555

Publisher: MIT Press, 2009

Synopsis

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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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 Why Agree? Why Move? Unifying Agreement-Based and Discourse-Configurational Languages (MIT Press).

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262513552
• ISBN 13: 9780262513555
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200