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Linguistic Theory and the Japanese Language
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- Instructor
- Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa
- Term
- Fall 2004
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 10 other files · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 24.946 Linguistic Theory and the Japanese Language, Fall 2004, Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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- A lecture sequence of 13 items is confirmed. It stays as organized materials rather than a full course order.
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Lecture Notes
9 files
- Nature of Optional Movement Download
- The EPP, Agreement and Focus I Download
- The EPP, Agreement and Focus II: With Reference to Bantu (PDF 1) Download
- The EPP, Agreement and Focus II: With Reference to Bantu (PDF 2) Download
- EPP, Syntactic Locality, and Floated Quantifiers Download
- Scrambling and QR: QR is Scrambling Download
- Weak Islands Download
- Intervention Effect Download
- A-chain in Acquisition Download
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Course outline
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Lecture 2: Nature of Optional Movement (cont.)
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Lecture 3: The EPP, Agreement and Focus I
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Lecture 4: The EPP, Agreement and Focus II: With Reference to Bantu
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Lecture 5: The EPP, Agreement and Focus III: Questioning (Certain) parametric variations: wh-movement vs. wh-in-situ, agreement vs. nonagreement
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Lecture 6: EPP, Syntactic Locality, and Floated Quantifiers
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Lecture 7: Scrambling and QR: QR is Scrambling
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Lecture 8: Weak Islands, Intervention Effect
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Lecture 9: A-chain in Acquisition
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Lecture 10: Agreement, Case, and Verbal Morphology: ga/no Conversion and Related Issues
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Lecture 11: Noun Phrase Ellipsis
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Lecture 12: Noun Phrase Ellipsis (cont.) DP Structure
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Lecture 13: Make-up Class: -Wa, -Ga
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