{"id":375,"date":"2008-12-01T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=375"},"modified":"2008-11-29T15:17:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T20:17:29","slug":"miyagawa-harvard-linguistics-theory-group-tues-122-6pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2008\/12\/01\/miyagawa-harvard-linguistics-theory-group-tues-122-6pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Miyagawa @ Harvard Linguistics Theory Group - Tues 12\/2 6pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week Shigeru Miyagawa will speak at the <a href=\" http:\/\/www.fas.harvard.edu\/~lingdept\/LinguisticsTheoryGroup.html\">Harvard Linguistics Theory Group<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Title: Why Agree? Why Move? Unifying Agreement-based and Discourse-configurational Languages<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTime:  December 2nd, Tuesday<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: Boylston Hall Room 303; 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><P>Why do we find agreement in human language? And why is there movement? I will propose a unified answer to these questions based on a specific design for human language that we have assumed in generative grammar since the early 1980s \u0097 in GB, LFG, MP and others. What I will show is that agreement must be a universal phenomenon, occurring in every language, and with it, movement. This is obviously a more abstract notion of agreement than phi-feature agreement since many languages lack such agreement. I will show that informational structural features such as topic and focus play a role in &#8220;agreementless&#8221; languages that is computationally equivalent to phi-features. That is, topic\/focus and phi-feature agreement are two sides of the same coin, both there to implement &#8220;agreement&#8221; and &#8220;movement&#8221; within exactly the same mechanism.<\/P> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Shigeru Miyagawa will speak at the Harvard Linguistics Theory Group Title: Why Agree? Why Move? Unifying Agreement-based and Discourse-configurational Languages Time: December 2nd, Tuesday Location: Boylston Hall Room 303; 6 p.m. Why do we find agreement in human language? And why is there movement? I will propose a unified answer to these questions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}