{"id":15054,"date":"2022-10-17T05:22:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T09:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=15054"},"modified":"2022-10-17T11:23:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T15:23:32","slug":"upcoming-article-in-nllt-ruoan-wang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2022\/10\/17\/upcoming-article-in-nllt-ruoan-wang\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming article in NLLT - Ruoan Wang"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">A paper, <em>Honorifics without [HON],<\/em> by 4th year student Ruoan Wang, has been accepted for publication in <em>Natural Language &amp; Linguistic Theory<\/em>! Huge congratulations to Ruoan!<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Manuscript here: https:\/\/ling.auf.net\/lingbuzz\/006802<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Honorifics are grammaticalized reflexes of politeness, often recruiting existing featural values (e.g. French recruits plural &#8216;vous&#8217; for polite address, and German third person plural &#8216;Sie&#8217;). This paper aims to derive their cross-linguistic distribution and interpretation without [HON], an analytical feature present since Corbett (2000). The striking generalization that emerges from a cross-linguistic survey of 120 languages is that only certain featural values are ever recruited for honorification: plural, third person, and indefinite. I show that these values are precisely those which are semantically unmarked, or presuppositionless, allowing the speaker to consider an interlocutor\u0092s negative face (Brown &amp; Levinson 1987). I propose an alternative analysis based on the interaction between semantic markedness, an avoidance-based pragmatic maxim called the Taboo of Directness, and Maximize Presupposition! (Heim 1991) to derive honorific meaning.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A paper, Honorifics without [HON], by 4th year student Ruoan Wang, has been accepted for publication in Natural Language &amp; Linguistic Theory! Huge congratulations to Ruoan! \u00a0 Manuscript here: https:\/\/ling.auf.net\/lingbuzz\/006802 \u00a0 Abstract: Honorifics are grammaticalized reflexes of politeness, often recruiting existing featural values (e.g. French recruits plural &#8216;vous&#8217; for polite address, and German third person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15054"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15060,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054\/revisions\/15060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}