Honorifics without [hon]

Abstract Honorifics are grammaticalized reflexes of politeness, often recruiting existing featural values (e.g. French recruits plural vous for polite address, and German, third person plural Sie). This paper aims to derive their cross-linguistic distribution and interpretation without...

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Main Author: Wang, Ruoan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Netherlands 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/147105

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