Lee, Il-Ho. 1997. The Honorific Agreement Construction of Korean: A Constraint-Based Analysis of HPSG. Linguistics, 5-2, 35-47. The honorific agreement construction means that in Korean the honorific feature [+HON] cooccurs on both subject and verb wh...
Lee, Il-Ho. 1997. The Honorific Agreement Construction of Korean: A Constraint-Based Analysis of HPSG. Linguistics, 5-2, 35-47. The honorific agreement construction means that in Korean the honorific feature [+HON] cooccurs on both subject and verb when a speaker wants to show a respect to the subject`s referent. Unlike the subject-verb agreement in English, the Korean honorific agreement is considered to be grammatical even when it violates an agreement relation. It depends on the mental state of a speaker whether or not the subject can be respected, independantly of the existence of the honorific feature [+HON]. Because of this pragmatic property, the honorific agreement construction of Korean must be handled with a syntactic, semantic and pragmatic interaction, not with a genuine syntactic approach of Transformational Grammar and Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar. This study is designed to show a constraint-based analysis of the honorific construction of Korea based on HPSG (Head-driven Phrase structure Grammar) of Pollard and Sag(1994). (Honam University)