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

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.