The central proposal of this thesis is that the status of ergativity within a given Inuit variety is
directly attributable to the underlying status of its object agreement morphology, and that this …

Recently, null arguments have been treated as an ellipsis phenomenon, derived by PF-
deletion or LF-copy under some kind of identity requirements. Focusing on Japanese null …

PRINCIPLE, Miyagawa 2010 argued that movement operations across languages are
governed by STRONG UNIFORMITY, which dictates that the same set of grammatical …

Since the principle and parameter approach to a fundamental linguistic issue, how the
universality and diversity of natural languages arises, was questioned in the minimalist …

In this monograph, Shigeru Miyagawa expands, sharpens, and further substantiates the
theory of clausal operations argued for in his 2010 monograph Why agree? Why move …