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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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Swedish language --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Agreement. --- Grammar. --- -Swedish language --- -Grammar, Comparative and general --- -Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Ruotsi language --- Svenska language --- Scandinavian languages --- Agreement --- Grammar, Comparative --- -Agreement --- Agreement (Grammar) --- Concord (Grammar) --- Concord --- Case --- Gender --- Number --- Person --- Syntax --- Swedish language - Agreement. --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Agreement.

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In this work, the authors study the interactions of imposters with a range of grammatical phenomena, including pronominal agreement, coordinate structures, Principle C phenomena epithets, fake indexicals, and a property of pronominal agreement they call homogeneity.

Grammar, Comparative and general -- Agreement. --- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Noun. --- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Pronominals. --- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Pronoun. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Pronominals --- Agreement --- Pronoun --- Noun --- Pronominals. --- Agreement. --- Pronoun. --- Noun. --- Pronouns --- Agreement (Grammar) --- Concord (Grammar) --- Concord --- Pronominal constructions --- Nominals --- Function words --- Reflexives --- Case --- Gender --- Number --- Person --- Syntax --- LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General --- Grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology

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Canonical switch-reference is an inflectional category of the verb, which indicates whether or not its subject is identical with the subject of some other verb. Switch-reference may be analyzed from a structural or a functional point of view. Functionally, switch-reference is a device for referential tracking. Formally, switch-reference is almost always a verbal category, similar to the familiar category of verbal concord. In most languages switch-reference marking is indicated by a verbal affix, however in some languages it may be marked by an independent morpheme. The contributions to this v

Indians --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Languages --- Linguistique --- --Typologie --- --Grammaire générale --- --Grammar, Comparative and general --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Switch-reference --- Congresses --- Agreement --- Verb --- Grammar --- Referentie [Taalwetenschap]. (Congres) --- Overeenkomst [Spraakkunst]. (Congres) --- Accord [Grammaire]. (Congrès) --- Verbe. Syntaxe. (Congrès) --- Référence [Linguistique]. (Congrès) --- Werkwoord. Syntaxis. (Congres) --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Typologie --- Grammaire générale --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Switch-reference - Congresses --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Agreement - Congresses --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb - Congresses --- Typology (Linguistics) - Congresses

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Anaphora (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Functional discourse grammar. --- Nominals. --- Verb phrase. --- Agreement. --- Grammaticalization. --- Agreement (Grammar) --- Concord (Grammar) --- Predicate (Grammar) --- Nominals (Grammar) --- Noun-equivalents (Grammar) --- Substantives (Grammar) --- Concord --- Phrasal verb --- Predicate --- Grammar --- Grammaticalization --- Semantics --- Verb phrase --- Cross-reference (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Reference (Linguistics) --- Functional grammar --- Discourse analysis --- Functionalism (Linguistics) --- Syntax --- Case --- Gender --- Number --- Person --- Verbals --- Noun phrase --- Functional discourse grammar --- Nominals --- Agreement --- Anaphora (Linguistics). --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Nominals --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb phrase --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Agreement --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Grammaticalization