#3877. The Morphosyntax of Magahi Addressee Agreement

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Abstract:
This article analyzes addressee agreement (allocutive agreement) in Magahi, an Eastern Indo-Aryan language. Magahi finite verbs encode the honorificity (social status) of the addressee, in addition to encoding the person and honorificity of the subject. Magahi addressee agreement is special in two respects. The author claims that the covert syntactically expressed representation of the addressee, which undergoes addressee agreement, is relatively low in the clause structure. The proposal diverges from previous analyses, in which the locus of addressee agreement is the highest projection of a clause, found primarily in root clauses. This study implies that the addressee is syntactically present in every finite clause.
Keywords:
Finite verbs; addressee agreement; Magahi; projection of a clause; honorificity

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