Speaker: Ruoan Wang (MIT)
Title: Tiered honorification in Eastern Indo-Aryan
Time: Thursday, May 16th, 12:30pm – 2pm
Location: 32-D461
Abstract: Longstanding tradition in the literature uses [HON] to analyze tiered honorification systems of Indo-Aryan. This work explores an analysis outside that tradition, using Wangs (2023) presuppositional account which does not make use of [HON]. I make a crucial modification to Wang (2023) and show how it can explain the diachronic and synchronic patterns of Indo-Aryan honorification.