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