Politeness as a feature: so important and so rare
Politeness has a major place in many languages, and is remarkably pervasive in some. Yet we rarely find respect as a morphosyntactic feature, alongside gender, person, number and case. I document this imbalance, and then ask why this is what we find.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Bern Open Publishing
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Linguistik Online |
| Online Access: | http://www.linguistik-online.de/51_12/corbett.pdf |