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

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...

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Main Author:	Miyagawa, Shigeru
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.
Series:	Linguistic inquiry monograph ; 54
Subjects:	Government-binding theory (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general > Agreement. LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book