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Face vs. empathy: the social foundations of Maithili verb agreement

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1999
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Bickel, B., Bisang, W., & Yādava, Y. P. (1999). Face vs. empathy: the social foundations of Maithili verb agreement. Linguistics, 37, 481–518. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling.37.3.481

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Maithili features one of the most complex agreement systems of any Indo-Aryan language. Not only nominative and non-nominative subjects, but also objects, other core arguments, and even nonarguments are cross-referenced, allowing for a maximum of three participants encoded by the verb desinences. The categories reflected in the morphology are person, honorific degree, and, in the case of third persons, gender, spatial distance, and focus. However, not all combinations of category choices are equally represented, and there are many cas

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37

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481

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0024-3949

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Bickel, B., Bisang, W., & Yādava, Y. P. (1999). Face vs. empathy: the social foundations of Maithili verb agreement. Linguistics, 37, 481–518. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling.37.3.481

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