The role of [animate] and [human] features in agreement in Ho

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  • Taejin Koh Professor, Department of Indian Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul 02450, S. Korea.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31305/rrijm.2022.v07.i09.013

Keywords:

Ho language, agreement, animate feature, human feature, pro-drop language

Abstract

Ho language is classified as a member of the Munda group that belongs to the Austro-Asiatic branch. It is well known that Ho is very rich in agreement. The general pattern of agreement sentences of languages is that agreement is overtly realized between an argument NP and verb; subject-verb / object-verb agreement. However, agreement is not morphologically manifested and is covert if the functional head agreement is weak in Ho. Moreover, it also shows agreement phenomena in terms of [±animate] and [±human]. Therefor this paper is to layout the basic patterns of agreement with the role of [animante] and [human] in Ho.

Author Biography

Taejin Koh, Professor, Department of Indian Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul 02450, S. Korea.

Dr. Taejin Koh received his Bachelor of Arts from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea, Master of Linguistics & M.Phil. of Linguistics from University of Delhi, Delhi, India. He obtained his Ph.D. Degree in Linguistics from University of Delhi. He is currently working as Professor & Head of Hindi Dept. at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea. His many articles have been published in A&HCI and Scopus indexed journals.

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Koh, Taejin. (2002). ‘Agreement in Ho’. Unpublished M.A. dissertation. Delhi: University of Delhi.

Koh, Taejin. (2009). A Typological Grammar of Ho. Seoul: HUFS Press.

Subbarao, K. V. 1997. ‘Linguistic Theory and Syntactic Typology’. Moscow: A paper delivered at the International Conference on South Asian Languages.

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Published

20-09-2022

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Koh, T. (2022). The role of [animate] and [human] features in agreement in Ho . RESEARCH REVIEW International Journal of Multidisciplinary, 7(9), 87–92. https://doi.org/10.31305/rrijm.2022.v07.i09.013

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Vol. 7 No. 9 (2022): RESEARCH REVIEW International Journal of Multidisciplinary

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