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1Nature of Optional MovementMiyagawa, Shigeru. "EPP and semantically vacuous scrambling." In The Free Word Order Phenomenon: Its Syntactic Sources and Diversity. Edited by Joachim Sabel, and Mamoru Saito. Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter. (To appear)
2Nature of Optional Movement (cont.)Amazon logo Saito, Mamoru. "Scrambling as semantically vacuous A'-movement." In Alternative Conceptions of Phrase Structure. Edited by Mark Baltin, and Anthon Kroch. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1989, pp. 182-200. ISBN: 0226036421.

Sauerland, Uli, and Paul Elbourne. "Total reconstruction, PF movement, and derivational order." Linguistic Inquiry 33 (2002): 283-319.
3The EPP, Agreement and Focus IMiyagawa, Shigeru. "On the EPP." In Proceedings of the EPP/Phase Workshop. Edited by Martha McGinnis, and Norvin Richards. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. (In press)

Otsuka, Yuko. "Scrambling and information focus: VSO-VOS alternation in Tongan." In The Free Word Order Phenomenon: Its Syntactic Sources and Diversity. Edited by Joachim Sabel, and Mamoru Saito. Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter. (To appear)

Optional

Amazon logo Miyagawa, Shigeru. "A-movement Scrambling and Options Without Optionality." In Word Order and Scrambling. Edited by Simin Karimi. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2003. ISBN: 0631233288.
4The EPP, Agreement and Focus II: With Reference to BantuAmazon logo Baker, Mark. "Agreement, Dislocation, and Partial Configurationality." In Formal Approaches to Function in Grammar: in honor of Eloise Jelinek. Edited by Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley, and MaryAnn Willie. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing, 2003. ISBN: 1588113485.

Optional

Alexiadou, Artemis and Elena Anagnostopoulou. "Parametrizing AGR: Word Order, V-Movement and EPP-Checking." Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 16, no. 3 (1998).
5The EPP, Agreement and Focus III: Questioning (Certain) parametric variations: wh-movement vs. wh-in-situ, agreement vs. nonagreementKuroda, S. Y. "Whether we agree or not: a comparative syntax of English and Japanese." Linguisticae Investigationes 12 (1988): 1-47.

Sigurdsson, Halldór Ármann. "Meaningful silence, meaningless sounds." Ms., Lund University, Sweden, 2004.
6EPP, Syntactic Locality, and Floated QuantifiersMiyagawa, Shigeru, and Koji Arikawa. "Syntactic Locality and Floated Numeral Quantifiers." Ms., MIT/St. Andrews, 2004.

Amazon logo Bobaljik, Jonathan. "Floating Quantifiers: Handle with Care." In The Second Glot State of the Article Book. Edited by L. Cheng, and R. Sybesma. Berlin, Germany: Mouton, 2003, pp. 107-148. ISBN: 3110171406.

Boskovic, Zeljko. "Be careful where you float your quantifiers." National Language and Linguistic Theory (To appear)

Hoji, Hajime, and Yasu Ishii. "What gets mapped to the tripartite structure of quantification in Japanese?" In Proceedings of the 23rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 2004, pp. 346-359. ISBN: 1574730738.
7Scrambling and QR: QR is ScramblingJohnson, Kyle, and Satoshi Tomioka. "Lowering and mid-size clauses." In Reconstruction: proceedings of the 1997 Tübingen Workshop. Edited by Graham Katz, Shin-sook Kim, and Heike Winhart. Stuttgart, Germany; Tübingen, Germany: Universität Stuttgart and Universität Tübingen, 1997, pp. 185-206.

Background

Fox, Danny, and Jon Nissenbaum. "Extraposition and Scope: A case for overt QR." In Proceedings of the 18th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 1999.
8Weak Islands, Intervention EffectMiyagawa, Shigeru. "The Nature of Weak Islands." Ms., MIT, 2004.
9A-chain in AcquisitionMachida, Nanako, Shigeru Miyagawa, and Ken Wexler. "A-chain Maturation Reexamined: Why Japanese Children Perform Better on 'Full' Unaccusatives Than on Passives." MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. Volume on acquisition. (To appear)
10Agreement, Case, and Verbal Morphology: ga/no Conversion and Related IssuesOchi, Masao. "Move F and ga/no conversion in Japanese." JEAL (2001): 247-286.

Uchibori, Asako. "Raising out of CP and C-T relations." FAJL3 Proceedings, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 2001.

Watanabe, Akira. "Nominative-genitive conversion and agreement in Japanese: a cross-linguistic perspective." JEAL 5 (1996): 373-410.
11Noun Phrase EllipsisHoji, Hajime. "Null object and sloppy identity in Japanese." LI 29 (1998): 127-154.

Otani, Kazuyo, and John Whitman. "V-raising and VP ellipsis." LI 22 (1991): 345-358.
12Noun Phrase Ellipsis (cont.)

DP Structure
Watanabe, Akira. "Indeterminates and determiners." In Proceedings of Workshop in Altaic Formal Linguistics. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 2004.
13Make-up Class: -Wa, -Ga

Amazon logo Kuno, Susumu. "Particles." In The Structure of the Japanese Language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1973, pp. 37-95. ISBN: 0262110490.

A work by Yoshi Kitagawa and collaborator.

Except from Shin Ishihara's 2003 MIT dissertation.


 








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