Korean grammar encodes relative social hierarchies among interlocutors in various ways.
This study utilized honorific subject-verb agreement in Korean to investigate how social …

Linguistic politeness refers to using language in a way that takes into account the feelings of
others regarding how they should be treated, including demonstrating appropriate concern …

This paper uses the concept of “verbal hygiene”(Cameron, Deborah. 1995. Verbal hygiene.
Abingdon, UK: Routledge) to analyze metadiscourses in South Korea regarding a recent …

This paper examines the use of honorification for inanimate subjects in Korean, a linguistic
phenomenon that, although traditionally ungrammatical, has been increasingly used in …

The study investigated two types of subjecthood diagnostics in Korean using two different
kinds of approaches. Based on the previous studies on subjecthood diagnostics in Korean …

This paper provides an analysis of the Korean honorification system as agreement. Under
the proposed analysis, subject honorification is triggered by an unvalued honorific feature …

In this article, we explore whether hierarchy and linearity conspire to affect agreement. The
data come from an experimental study of honorific agreement between verbal si and …

This paper aims to give a detailed account of the phonological and discourse properties of a
post-syntactic truncation in IsiXhosa, Setswana, and TshiVenḓa which is used to show …

This dissertation explores the multifaceted Korean interjection'ney'from the pragmatic,
multimodal, and historical perspectives. As a polite expression,'ney'demonstrates a …

This dissertation investigates the nominative object constructions (NOCs) in Korean psych
verb constructions, with a focus on their potential to be double nominative arrays (NOM …