Allocutive agreement and indexicals Shift Together, but not always

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Thomas McFadden, Sandhya Sundaresan

Published: 07 Feb 2025, Last Modified: 23 Apr 2025WCCFL 2025 posterEveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY 4.0
Keywords: allocutive agreement, indexical shift, Tamil, Magahi, Shift Together, Speaker, Addressee
TL;DR: Allocutive agreement and indexical shift interact in ways that mostly respect Shift Together, but with systematic exceptions which inform our analysis of both.
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Submission Number: 186

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