home LINGUISTICS research & media projects Publications & Manuscripts Honors & Awards COURSES Publications & Manuscripts Texts with hyperlinks can be downloaded as .PDF documents. The most recent version Adobe System's free .PDF viewer is available for download here. Books & Monographs Case, Argument Structure, and Word Order. Leading Linguists Series. Routledge. To appear (publication planned for 2012). Why Agree? Why Move? Unifying Agreement-based and Discourse-configurational Languages. October 2009, MIT Press, Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 54. Link to MIT Press. Oxford Handbook of Japanese Linguistics, Oxford University Press, 2008 (edited with Mamoru Saito) Historical Development of the Accusative Case Marking in Japanese as Seen in Classical Literary Texts, special issue of Journal of Japanese Linguistics, vol. 19, 105 pp., 2003 (with Fusae Ekida). Link to manuscript. Structure and Case Marking in Japanese, Academic Press, 259 pp., 1989. Studies in Japanese Language Use: Papers in Linguistics Monograph Series, Alberta, Canada, co-edited with Chisato Kitagawa, 1984. Complex Verbs and the Lexicon, Coyote Papers, Vol. I, University of Arizona Linguistics Circle, 1981 (1980 University of Arizona doctoral dissertation). Articles "Genitive subjects in Altaic and Specification of Phase," to appear in a special Lingua volume edited by Jaklin Kornfilt and John Whitman. The date of the ms. is 6/28/09. Link to manuscript. "Nominalization and Argument Structure," 2009, English translation of a Japanese article published in a volume by Kurosio. Link to paper. "Genitive Subjects in Altaic," 2008. In: Ulutas, S., Boeckx, C. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL4), MITWPL 56, Cambridge, Mass., pp. 181-198.MITWPL. Link to manuscript. "Optionality," Novembmer 2008, MIT ms. A pedagogical work about optionality in minimalism. Link to manuscript. "Locality in Syntax and Floated Numeral Quantifiers," 2007, Linguistic Inquiry 38:645-670 (with Koji Arikawa). Link to article. "On the ‘undoing’ nature of scrambling: a response to Bošković,” 2006, Linguistic Inquiry 37:607-624. Link to article. "Moving to the edge." Proceedings of the KALS-KASELL International Conference on English and Linguistics, pp. 3-18. Pusan National University, Busan, Korea. June 2006. Link to article. "Locality in syntax and floated numeral quantifiers in Japanese and Korean." In Proceedings of the 14 th Japanese/Korean Linguistics , ed. by Timothy J. Vance and Kimberly Jones, 270-282. CSLI Publications, Stanford, California. 2006. Link to article. Miyagawa, Shigeru. 2007 (written in 2004/2005). Unifying agreement and agreementless languages. In Meltem Kelepir and Balkiz Öztürk, eds., MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 54: Proceedings of the Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics II , 47-66. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL. Link to article. "EPP and Semantically Vacuous Scrambling," Joachim Sabel and Mamoru Saito, eds., The Free Word Order Phenomenon: Its Syntactic Sources and Diversity, 181-220. Mouton de Gruyter. 2005. Link to article. "On the EPP," Martha McGinnis and Norvin Richards, eds., Perspective on Phases, 201-236. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 2005. Link to article. "On Weak Islands," 2004 MIT manuscript. Link to manuscript. "A-chain Maturation Re-examined: Why Japanese Children Perform Better on "Full" Unaccusatives than on Passives," Andrea Gualmini, et al, eds., MIT Working Papers on Linguistics, to appear in Fall 2004 (with Nanako Machida and Ken Wexler). Link to manuscript. "Decomposing Ditransitive Verbs," Proceedings of SICGG, 101-120. Summer 2004 (with Yeun-Jin Jung). Link to article. "The EPP, Unaccusativity, and the Resultative Constructions in Japanese," Scientific Approaches to Language No. 3, Center for Language Sciences, Kanda University of International Studies, Kanda, Japan. April 2004 (with Maria Babyonyshev). Link to article. "Wh-in-situ and Scrambling in the Context of Comparative Altaic Syntax," Proceedings of the First Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. Spring 2004. Link to article. "Argument Structure and Ditransitive Verbs in Japanese," Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 1-38. 2004 (with Takae Tsujioka). Link to article. "A-movement Scrambling and Options Without Optionality," Word Order and Scrambling, 177-200. Simin Karimi, ed., Blackwell Publishers, 2003. Link to manuscript. "MIT’s OpenCourseWare Initiative: A Case Study in Institutional Decision-Making," Academe Vol.88 No6, 23-27 (Journal of AAUP), with Steve Lerman. 2002. Link to article. "Personal Media," Technos Quarterly, 2002. Link to article. "Causatives," Natsuko Tsujimura, ed., The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics, Blackwell, pp. 236-268, 2001. "EPP, Scrambling, and Wh-in-situ," Ken Hale: A Life in Language. Michael Kenstowicz, ed., MIT Press, 2001, pp. 293-338. "Attachment and Japanese Relative Clause," Journal of Language Processing (with Edson Miyamoto, Ted Gibson, and Takako Aikawa) 2000. "Light Verb Make and the Notion of Cause," Festrischft for Kazuko Inoue, 2000. "Nominative Case Ga in Acquisition," Proceedings of the BU Conference on Language Acquisition (with Edson Miyamoto, Ken Wexler, and Takako Aikawa) 2000. "(S)ase as an Elsewhere Causative and the Syntactic Nature of Words," Journal of Japanese Linguistics, 1998 (accepted in 1995). "Against Optional Scrambling," Linguistic Inquiry 28.1, Winter 1997, pp. 1-25. "Word Order Restrictions and Nonconfigurationality," Proceedings of Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 2, MITWPL, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT, 1996, pp. 117-142. Link to article. "JP NET: Building a Virtual Global Community of Japanese Specialists," Proceedings of the Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference at Georgetown, Association of Teachers of Japanese, Middlebury College, 1995 (with Tomoko Graham and Anne LaVin). "Scrambling as an Obligatory Movement," Proceedings of the Nanzan Conference on Japanese Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1995. "(S)ase as an Elsewhere Causative," Program of the Conference on Theoretical Linguistics and Japanese Language Teaching, Tsuda University, 1994, pp. 61-76. "Case, Agreement, and Ga/No Conversion in Japanese," Proceedings of the San Diego State University Japanese/Korean Linguistic Conference, 1993, pp. 221-235. "LF Case-checking and Minimal Link Condition," MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 1993, pp. 213-254. Link to article. "Transitivity and Case Marking" (review article of Wesley Jacobsenís The Transitive Structure of Events in Japanese), Journal of Association of Teachers of Japanese, 1993. "Case Realization and Scrambling," Ms., Ohio State University, 1991. Link to article. "Kara and Node: Extending the Study Based on Phenomenal and Structural Knowledge." Proceedings of the Middlebury Conference on Japanese Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1991. "The Logic of kara and node," in C. Georgepolis and R. Ishihara, eds., Interdisciplinary Approach to Language: In Honor of S.-Y. Kuroda. Reidel, 1991. "Light Verbs and the Ergative Hypothesis," Linguistic Inquiry 20.4, 1989, pp. 659-668. "NP Movement in Japanese." Ms. Hajime Hoji (USC), Shigeru Miyagawa (Ohio State), Hiroaki Tada. 1989 (USC). Link to article. "Predication and Numeral Quantifier," in W. Poser, ed., Proceedings of the Second Japanese Syntax Workshop, pp. 157-192, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, 1988. "Shiekikei to Goi-bumon," (Causative forms and the Lexicon), in S. Kuno and M. Shibatani, eds., Nihongogaku no Shintenkai (New directions in Japanese Linguistics), Kuroshio Shuppan, 1988. "Unaccusative Verbs in Japanese," Proceedings of the Eastern States Conference on Linguistics 4, 1988, pp. 199-220. "Theme Subjects and Numeral Quantifiers," in W. Tawa and N. Nakayama, eds., pp. 132-167, Proceedings of the Japanese Syntax Workshop, Connecticut College, 1987. "Lexical Categories in Japanese," Lingua 73, 1987, pp. 29-51. "LF Affix Raising in Japanese," Linguistic Inquiry 18, 1987, pp. 362-367. "Restructuring in Japanese," in T. Imai and M. Saito, eds., Issues in Japanese Linguistics, Foris Publications, 1987, pp 273-300. "Wh Phrase and Wa," in John Hinds et al, eds., Perspectives on Topicalization: Studies on the Japanese Wa, Benjamin Press, 1987, pp. 185-217. "Historical Development of the Accusative Case in Japanese (with Setsuko Matsunaga), " Journal of Asian Culture, UCLA Vol. 8, 1986, pp. 87-101. "Verb Classes in English and Japanese: A Case Study in the Interaction of Syntax, Morphology, and Semantics," (with Naoki Fukui and Carol Tenney), Lexicon Project Working Papers 7, Center for Cognitive Science, MIT, 1985, pp. 87-101. "Blocking and Japanese Causatives," Lingua 64, 1984, pp. 177-207. "Pragmatics of Causation in Japanese," Studies in Japanese Language Use, S. Miyagawa and C. Kitagawa, eds., 1984, pp. 147-184. "Requesting in Japanese," Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese 17, 1984, pp. 123-143. "Self-Sustaining Dialect: A Model for Second Language Teaching (with Galal Walker)," Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Linguists, S. Hattori, ed., Tokyo, 1983, pp. 1136-1138. "Paradigmatic Structures and Word Formation," Coyote Papers 2, University of Arizona Linguistics Circle, 1982, pp. 145-162. Shigeru Miyagawa Massachusetts Institute of Technology Head, Foreign Languages and Literatures Professor of Linguistics & Kochi-Manjiro Professor of   Japanese Language and Culture 14N-303, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02420 USA 617-253-4771  miyagawa@mit.edu