Honorific marking: Interpreted and Interpretable
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Japanese, Korean, and Thai provide yet more extensive and articulated honorification paradigms, with a range of special formal, familiar, and derogatory pronominal forms, as well as verb forms and others. This extra dimension in the pronominal system separates these languages from, e.g., English and Arabic, where the pronominal paradigms make no such distinction. But it is evident that, in natural language, a pronoun’s feature structure can be at least as complex as (2) will allow. (HONORIFIC organizes the formal/familiar distinction.)
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تاریخ انتشار 2004