Allocutive agreement through mesoclisisAllocutive Agreement • February 19th, 2016
This paper focuses on the mesoclisis in (1b), which involves the 2nd person plural suffix and the reflexive clitic pronoun in Romanian imperatives. Romanian studies on these constructions attribute the mesoclisis to morphophonology (Byck 1935; Morariu 1921; Mării 1969 a.o.).
Allocutive agreement in KumalAllocutive Agreement • September 26th, 2022
In languages with allocutive agreement, a verb agrees with some feature of the addressee to whom a sentence is uttered despite that addressee not being an argument of the verb (Oyharçabal 1993; Antonov 2015; Alok, in press; Alok & Baker, in press). As part of a broader analysis of its agree- ment patterns, I present evidence that Kumal (Indo-Aryan), as spoken in Gorkha, Nepal, displays allocutive agreement (AA). Unlike the other AA languages, however, verbs in Kumal may not agree with both an argument and an addressee – only with one or the other. Furthermore, the availability of AA in Kumal is dependent on the person and case features of the verb’s subject. I propose analyzing this as competition between the argument and addressee for agreement ex- ponence, and offer a model of this competition using morphological OT constraints in a MaxEnt framework that is particularly well-suited to capturing the observed variability and optionality as well as conformity to typological trends of pe
