Abstract
The current paper provides the syntactic analysis for the agreement attraction of the plural subject in English and Korean and subject honorification in Korean in terms of the syntactic subject-verb agreement. The ramifications of this paper include that there are features like [+PL] or [+HON] in the subject that undergo upward or downward percolation other than [WH]. Supporting evidence for the subject-verb agreement is attested along with feature percolation of [+PL] in English and Korean and [+HON] in Korean (Ross, 1967; Hudson, 2013; Hong, 2018). The agreement or its frequent error is affected by the hierarchical structure between an agreement target and a local attractor. The [+PL] feature in English and Korean and [+HON] feature in Korean are also suggested to be a local attractor for the subject-verb(al predicate) agreement. In the coordinate structure of the subject in Korean, the [+HON] feature of the last element is a strong one, so only its [+HON] feature undergoes upward percolation to the entire subject DP, which is consistent with si of the verbal predicate.
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