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Syntax in the Treetops

By: Miyagawa, Shigeru.
Series: Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 84.Publisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2022Description: xviii, 234 p.; ill. 23 cm.ISBN: 9780262543491.Subject(s): Comparative and general Syntax | Semantics | Speech acts | Linguistics | Syntaxe | Autistic spectrum disorders | Basque | CP layeer | German | Head-to-head movement | Honorifies | Illocutionary force | Japanese | Koto | Left-dislocation | Mas | Performative analysis | Q-particle drop | Right dislocation | Root sensitivity | Speech acts | Topicalization | Wh-movement | YoDDC classification: 415 Summary: In Syntax in the Treetops, Shigeru Miyagawa proposes that syntax extends into the domain of discourse by making linkages between core syntax and the conversational participants. Miyagawa draws on evidence for this extended syntactic structure from a wide variety of languages, including Basque, Japanese, Italian, Magahi, Newari, Romanian, and Spanish, as well as the language of children with autism. His proposal for what happens at the highest level of the tree structure used by linguists to represent the hierarchical relationships within sentences—“in the treetops”—offers a unique contribution to the new area of study sometimes known as “syntacticization of discourse.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

In Syntax in the Treetops, Shigeru Miyagawa proposes that syntax extends into the domain of discourse by making linkages between core syntax and the conversational participants. Miyagawa draws on evidence for this extended syntactic structure from a wide variety of languages, including Basque, Japanese, Italian, Magahi, Newari, Romanian, and Spanish, as well as the language of children with autism. His proposal for what happens at the highest level of the tree structure used by linguists to represent the hierarchical relationships within sentences—“in the treetops”—offers a unique contribution to the new area of study sometimes known as “syntacticization of discourse.

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