{"id":17025,"date":"2025-04-07T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=17025"},"modified":"2025-04-06T20:06:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T00:06:39","slug":"syntax-square-4-8-j-cooper-roberts-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2025\/04\/07\/syntax-square-4-8-j-cooper-roberts-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 4\/8 - J. Cooper Roberts (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> J. Cooper Roberts (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Honorification as omnivorous Agree in Kikai Amami<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, April 8th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Japanese (Japonic &gt; Yamato) is well-known for its complex systems of honorification, both of clausal arguments (sonkeigo) and discourse participants (teineigo). However, the honorific systems of the related Ryukyuan languages have received comparatively little attention. This Syntax Square will consider the interaction of addressee and subject honorification in Kikai Amami (Japonic &gt; Ryukyuan &gt; Northern &gt; Amami), an endangered language spoken in Kagoshima-ken, Japan. Briefly, both kinds of honorification can be realized by a single suffix -ee, whereas Japanese has separate morphological processes for addressee and argument. A blocking effect is also observed in certain dialects of Kikai Amami if the subject is of a certain animacy status. I will also present (a draft of) an analysis of this honorification system in Generative terms. This analysis has three key ingredients: representation of speech-act participants in the syntax (Ross, 1970; a.o.) Honorification as Agree (following Miyagawa, 2017, 2022; a.m.o) and (plausibly binary) HON features (contra Wang, 2023).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: J. Cooper Roberts (MIT) Title: Honorification as omnivorous Agree in Kikai Amami Time: Tuesday, April 8th, 1pm - 2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: Japanese (Japonic &gt; Yamato) is well-known for its complex systems of honorification, both of clausal arguments (sonkeigo) and discourse participants (teineigo). However, the honorific systems of the related Ryukyuan languages have received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17025","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17030,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17025\/revisions\/17030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}