Series Foreword vii
Preface ix
Abbreviations xv
1 Setting the Stage 1
2 The SAP and the Politeness Φ-Feature 37
3 The SAP, CommitP, and Sentence Final Particles 89
4 Is the Judgment Phrase Needed? A View from Topicalization 127
5 Questions and the Commitment Phrase 163
6 Concluding Thoughts: The Uniqueness of Human Language 197
Notes 201
References 207
Name Index 225
Subject Index 229

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Shigeru Miyagawa is Professor of Linguistics at MIT and the author of Why Move? Why Agree? and Agreement Beyond Phi, both also in the Linguistic Inquiry Monographs series.

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