Syntax in the Treetops

• Main Author: Miyagawa, Shigeru (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Series: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs 84
• Subjects: Grammar, syntax & morphology; Semantics & pragmatics; Philosophy of language; Allocutive agreement; Basque; politeness; speech act phrase; topicalization; questions; question under discussion; performative analysis; root; main clause phenomena; speaker; addressee
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

A proposal that syntax extends to the domain of discourse in making core syntax link to the conversational context. 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. Miyaga...