Shigeru Miyagawa
List of John Benjamins publications in which Shigeru Miyagawa is involved.
Articles
2026 Pro-drop, E-type pronouns, and agreement with reference to the null subject in Chinese and Japanese New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 118–157 | Chapter
Kuroda (1965) suggested that the empty element in Japanese is a covert pronoun. Otani and Whitman (1991), following Huang (1987a/b, 1991), showed that the empty element may have a sloppy interpretation, which is unexpected with an ordinary referential pronoun. Oku (1998) proposes that this empty… read more
2012 Agreements that occur mainly in the main clause Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons, Aelbrecht, Lobke, Liliane Haegeman and Rachel Nye (eds.), pp. 79–112 | Article
Most agreement systems target a grammatical entity within the sentence, typically the subject but in some cases the object or the dative. There is another kind of agreement found in languages such as Souletin, a Basque dialect, that targets the hearer. I will look at this type of so-called… read more
1987 Wa and the WH phrase Perspectives on Topicalization: The case of Japanese wa, Hinds, John, Shoichi Iwasaki and Senko K. Maynard (eds.), pp. 185–220 | Article