The Person Case Constraint (PCC) and honorification
Soo-Hwan Lee
August 2024
 

Under the current analysis, honorific (H) agreement is epiphenomenal, and honorification is person feature agreement in disguise. We gain independent evidence for placing first and second person features (1/2P) on an argument introducing head such as Voice or Appl based on the previous literature addressing the Person Case Constraint (PCC). This brings us to the following question: Why are argument introducers recruited for the realization of H? Note that a similar kind of inquiry can be leveled at the following question: Why should the PCC hold? While there are unanswered aspects to these questions, I believe the PCC and the restrictions on honorification can be treated on par with each other. Hopefully, this brings us closer to a unified approach that provides a fuller explanation as to why these restrictions/constraints hold in syntax.
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Reference: lingbuzz/008308
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Published in: Proceedings of CLS 60
keywords: pcc, honorification, argument structure, case markers, morphology, syntax
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