Shigeru Miyagawa Livres

Exploring the intricate relationship between syntax and semantics, this work delves into how speakers can express identical meanings through varied speech acts. It offers a comprehensive analysis of the underlying syntactic structures that enable this phenomenon, presenting solutions to the challenges posed by semantic variability. The book is a valuable resource for linguists and scholars interested in the complexities of language use and communication.

The book delves into the intricate relationship between syntax, case marking, and argument structure, presenting new analyses by Miyagawa. It explores topics such as numeral quantifier stranding, ditransitive constructions, and the nominative/genitive alternation. Additionally, it offers a syntactic perspective on lexical and syntactic causatives, along with historical changes in accusative case marking from Old to Modern Japanese. These analyses highlight the interconnectedness of case marking, argument structure, and word order in linguistic theory.

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.