How Long to Read Why Agree? Why Move?

How Long Does it Take to Read Why Agree? Why Move??

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 40 minutes to read Why Agree? Why Move? by Shigeru Miyagawa

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

An argument that not only do movement and agreement occur in every language, they also work in tandem to imbue natural language with enormous expressive power. An unusual property of human language is the existence of movement operations. Modern syntactic theory from its inception has dealt with the puzzle of why movement should occur. In this monograph, Shigeru Miyagawa combines this question with another, that of the occurrence of agreement systems. Using data from a wide range of languages, he argues that movement and agreement work in tandem to achieve a specific goal: to imbue natural language with enormous expressive power. Without movement and agreement, he contends, human language would be merely a shadow of itself, with severe limitation on what can be expressed. Miyagawa investigates a variety of languages, including English, Japanese, Bantu languages, Romance languages, Finnish, and Chinese. He finds that every language manifests some kind of agreement, some in the form of the familiar person/number/gender system and others in the form of what Katalin É. Kiss calls “discourse configurational” features such as topic and focus. A key proposal of his argument is that the computational system in syntax deals with the wide range of agreement types uniformly—as if there were just one system—and an integral part of this computation turns out to be movement. Why Agree? Why Move? is unique in proposing a unified system for movement and agreement across language groups that are vastly diverse—Bantu languages, East Asian languages, Indo-European languages, and others.

How long is Why Agree? Why Move??

Why Agree? Why Move? by Shigeru Miyagawa is 400 pages long, and a total of 100,000 words.

This makes it 135% the length of the average book. It also has 122% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Why Agree? Why Move? Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 6 minutes to read Why Agree? Why Move? aloud.

What Reading Level is Why Agree? Why Move??

Why Agree? Why Move? is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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