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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. 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. Using data from a wide range of languages, he argues that movement and agreement work in tandem to achieve a specific goal: to imbue natural language with enormous expressive power. Without movement and agreement, he contends, human language would be merely a shadow of itself, with severe limitation on what can be expressed. Miyagawa investigates a variety of languages, including English, Japanese, Bantu languages, Romance languages, Finnish, and Chinese. He finds that every language manifests some kind of agreement, some in the form of the familiar person/number/gender system and others in the form of what Katalin E. Kiss calls "discourse configurational" features such as topic and focus. A key proposal of his argument is that the computational system in syntax deals with the wide range of agreement types uniformly--as if there were just one system--and an integral part of this computation turns out to be movement. Why Agree? Why Move? is unique in proposing a unified system for movement and agreement across language groups that are vastly diverse--Bantu languages, East Asian languages, Indo-European languages, and others.

Government-binding theory (Linguistics). --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Agreement. --- Government-binding theory (Linguistics) --- Agreement --- Grammar --- Agreement (Grammar) --- Concord (Grammar) --- Binding theory (Linguistics) --- Government and binding (Linguistics) --- Generative grammar --- Linguistics --- Concord --- Case --- Gender --- Number --- Person --- Syntax --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Agreement --- LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General

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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.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Japanese language --- Discourse markers. --- Government-binding theory (Linguistics) --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics) --- Generative grammar --- Binding theory (Linguistics) --- Government and binding (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Discourse connectives --- Discourse particles --- Pragmatic markers --- Pragmatic particles --- Discourse analysis --- Pragmatics --- Koguryo language --- Agreement (Grammar) --- Concord (Grammar) --- Agreement. --- Syntax. --- Concord --- Case --- Gender --- Number --- Person --- Syntax --- Government-binding theory (Linguistics). --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics). --- Discourse markers --- Agreement --- LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General --- Philology

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"A syntactic analysis of and solution to the semantic problem: how can speakers convey the same meaning using different speech acts?"--

Grammar, syntax & morphology --- Semantics & pragmatics --- Philosophy of language --- Allocutive agreement --- Basque --- politeness --- speech act phrase --- topicalization --- questions --- question under discussion --- performative analysis --- root --- main clause phenomena --- speaker --- addressee --- Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Semantics. --- Syntax. --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Syntax --- Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) --- Speech act theory (Linguistics) --- Speech events (Linguistics) --- Language and languages --- Linguistics --- Speech --- Philosophy --- Semantics

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Studies of Japanese syntax have played a central role in the long history of Japanese linguistics spanning more than 250 years in Japan and abroad. More recently, Japanese has been among the languages most intensely studied within modern linguistic theories such as Generative Grammar and Cognitive/Functional Linguistics over the past fifty years. This volume presents a comprehensive survey of Japanese syntax from these three research strands, namely studies based on the traditional research methods developed in Japan, those from broader functional perspectives, and those couched in the generative linguistics framework.The twenty-four studies contained in this volume are characterized by a detailed analysis of a grammatical phenomenon with broader implications to general linguistics, making the volume attractive to both specialists of Japanese and those interested in learning about the impact of Japanese syntax to the general study of language. Each chapter is authored by a leading authority on the topic. Broad issues covered include sentence types (declarative, imperative, etc.) and their interactions with grammatical verbal categories (modality, polarity, politeness, etc.), grammatical relations (topic, subject, etc.), transitivity, nominalizations, grammaticalization, word order (subject, scrambling, numeral quantifier, configurationality), case marking (ga/no conversion, morphology and syntax), modification (adjectives, relative clause), and structure and interpretation (modality, negation, prosody, ellipsis). Chapter titles IntroductionChapter 1. Basic structures of sentences and grammatical categories, Yoshio Nitta, Kansai University of Foreign StudiesChapter 2: Transitivity, Wesley Jacobsen, Harvard UniversityChapter 3: Topic and subject, Takashi Masuoka, Kobe City University of Foreign StudiesChapter 4: Toritate: Focusing and defocusing of words, phrases, and clauses, Hisashi Noda,National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Chapter 5: The layered structure of the sentence, Isao Iori, Hitotsubashi UniversityChapter 6. Functional syntax, Ken-Ichi Takami, Gakushuin University; and Susumu Kuno, Harvard UniversityChapter 7: Locative alternation, Seizi Iwata, Osaka City UniversityChapter 8: Nominalizations, Masayoshi Shibatani, Rice UniversityChapter 9: The morphosyntax of grammaticalization, Heiko Narrog, Tohoku UniversityChapter 10: Modality, Nobuko Hasegawa, Kanda University of International StudiesChapter 11: The passive voice, Tomoko Ishizuka, Tama University Chapter 12: Case marking, Hideki Kishimoto, Kobe University Chapter 13: Interfacing syntax with sounds and meanings, Yoshihisa Kitagawa, Indiana University Chapter 14: Subject, Masatoshi Koizumi, Tohoku University Chapter 15: Numeral quantifiers, Shigeru Miyagawa, MITChapter 16: Relative clauses, Yoichi Miyamoto, Osaka UniversityChapter 17: Expressions that contain negation, Nobuaki Nishioka, Kyushu UniversityChapter 18: Ga/No conversion, Masao Ochi, Osaka UniversityChapter 19: Ellipsis, Mamoru Saito, Nanzan University Chapter 20: Syntax and argument structure, Natsuko Tsujimura, Indiana University Chapter 21: Attributive modification, Akira Watanabe, University of TokyoChapter 22: Scrambling, Noriko Yoshimura, Shizuoka Prefectural University

Japanese language --- Syntax. --- Syntax --- J5270 --- Japan: Language -- grammar -- syntax --- Applied Linguistics. --- Japanese.

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