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.

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