Syntax in the Treetops

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...

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description 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. 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.” Miyagawa's main point is that syntax provides the basic framework that makes possible the performance of a speech act and the conveyance of meaning; although the role that syntax plays for speech acts is modest, it is critical. He proposes that the speaker-addressee layer and the Commitment Phrase (the speaker's commitment to the addressee of the truthfulness of the proposition) occur together in the syntactic treetops. In each succeeding chapter, Miyagawa examines the working of each layer of the tree and how they interact.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-817042024-03-24T21:08:47Z Syntax in the Treetops Miyagawa, Shigeru Allocutive agreement Basque politeness speech act phrase topicalization questions question under discussion performative analysis root main clause phenomena speaker addressee thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFA Philosophy of language 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. 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.” Miyagawa's main point is that syntax provides the basic framework that makes possible the performance of a speech act and the conveyance of meaning; although the role that syntax plays for speech acts is modest, it is critical. He proposes that the speaker-addressee layer and the Commitment Phrase (the speaker's commitment to the addressee of the truthfulness of the proposition) occur together in the syntactic treetops. In each succeeding chapter, Miyagawa examines the working of each layer of the tree and how they interact. 2022-05-16T07:46:01Z 2022-05-16T07:46:01Z 2022 book ONIX_20220516_9780262369091_2 9780262369091 9780262543491 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/81704 eng Linguistic Inquiry Monographs application/octet-stream Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14421.001.0001 https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14421.001.0001 The MIT Press The MIT Press 10.7551/mitpress/14421.001.0001 10.7551/mitpress/14421.001.0001 ae0cf962-f685-4933-93d1-916defa5123d 9780262369091 9780262543491 The MIT Press 84 256 Cambridge open access
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performative analysis
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addressee
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Syntax in the Treetops
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Basque
politeness
speech act phrase
topicalization
questions
question under discussion
performative analysis
root
main clause phenomena
speaker
addressee
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFA Philosophy of language
topic_facet Allocutive agreement
Basque
politeness
speech act phrase
topicalization
questions
question under discussion
performative analysis
root
main clause phenomena
speaker
addressee
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFA Philosophy of language
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