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Syntax in the Treetops

Shigeru Miyagawa

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Syntax in the Treetops

By Shigeru Miyagawa, professor of linguistics and the Kochi-Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture (post-tenure)

MIT Press · 2022

"Syntax in the Treetops" 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 variety of languages, as well as the language of autistic children. His proposal for what happens at the highest level of the tree structure used by linguists offers a unique contribution to the new discipline sometimes known as "syntacticization of discourse."

From Summer 2022 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News). Cover image via Open Library.