The Role of Agreement in Natural Language

Korean honorific agreement is pragmatically constrained, requiring the consistency of honorific information between the subject and the head. The nominal honorific marker –nim attached to the subject and verbal affix –siindicate that the speaker owes honor to the subject’s referent. As a result, superficially, Korean honorific agreement is established by the co-existence or the co-absence of –nim and –si((1) is from Pollard and Sag 1994):

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