Portmanteau Honorificity Agreement in Maithili PREETI KUMARI1, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi ABSTRACTHonorificity Agreement • October 9th, 2021
Contract Type FiledOctober 9th, 2021However, multiple agreement is also restricted by two factors –1st person and 3rd person non-honorific objects fail to trigger agreement on the verb. Object agreement is also not allowed in the presence of allocutive agreement. This paper accounts for these facts by proposing that honorificity agreement is a result of the operator-variable binding by the context (c) head in the left periphery. Honorificity licensing also interacts with honorificity-based differential object agreement. Additionally, the c head can encode the honorificity values of only two elements at any given point in time.