A Note on Subject Honorification in Korean

• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Jeong-Seok Kim Jin Hyung Lee Jee Young Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제32권 제1호, 153~167쪽, 전체 15쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2022.02.28

영문 초록

Namai (2000) argues that Japanese subject honorification is not a syntactic agreement phenomenon, based on some observations such as honorific coordination or reciprocal licensing. In this squib, using Korean subject honorification, we show that Namai s arguments do not carry over to Korean, where a syntactic analysis is called for. Specifically, we propose that a functional category H is an honorific-phi probe, and that subject honorification happens when the honorific verbal si in H triggers agreement with a nominal referent in Spec of vP.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Arguments against a Syntactic Perspective

3. Syntactic Perspective

4. Conclusion

키워드

AGREE honorification interpretable feature privative feature uninterpretable feature