In this preliminary analysis, we describe the use of the signing space in morphosyntactic processes in Orocovis Sign Language (LSOR), a Village Sign Language shared as the medium of communication between Deaf and hearing members of a rural community in Puerto Rico. It has been passed on from generation to generation, and exhibits an extended and absolute use of the signing space, and grammatical features like agreement, aspectual marking, and classifiers. These preliminary results contribute to shape the emerging typological complexity in the area of Village Sign Languages.
{"title":"A ‘new’ Village Sign Language: structural properties of LSOR in Puerto Rico?","authors":"Marina Elena Benedicto, Yolanda Rivera-Castillo","doi":"10.31009/feast.i4.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31009/feast.i4.01","url":null,"abstract":"In this preliminary analysis, we describe the use of the signing space in morphosyntactic processes in Orocovis Sign Language (LSOR), a Village Sign Language shared as the medium of communication between Deaf and hearing members of a rural community in Puerto Rico. It has been passed on from generation to generation, and exhibits an extended and absolute use of the signing space, and grammatical features like agreement, aspectual marking, and classifiers. These preliminary results contribute to shape the emerging typological complexity in the area of Village Sign Languages.","PeriodicalId":164096,"journal":{"name":"FEAST. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122002845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On word order in Greek Sign Language","authors":"M. Koraka","doi":"10.31009/feast.i4.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31009/feast.i4.09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":164096,"journal":{"name":"FEAST. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory","volume":"122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127969426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A preliminary study on causatives in Italian Sign Langauge","authors":"M. Santoro, Valentina Aristodemo","doi":"10.31009/feast.i4.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31009/feast.i4.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":164096,"journal":{"name":"FEAST. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114235427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study examines structural iconicity in silent gesture by way of the representation and perception of transitive and intransitive events in silent gesture. Specifically, this study focuses on the Iconicity of Quantity and the Iconicity of Complexity, or the strong cross-linguistic tendency for transitive events to be conceptually and structurally more complex than intransitive ones, and for this property to be represented explicitly in verbal morphology where available. Through silent gesture elicitation and perception studies and follow-up handshape analyses, it is demonstrated that non-signers produce and interpret silent gestures in harmony with these iconicity principles. To support our analysis, we identify and recast previous work on event representations in silent gesture and sign language as manifestations of structural iconicity principles.
{"title":"Structural iconicity in silent gesture","authors":"Chuck Bradley","doi":"10.31009/feast.i4.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31009/feast.i4.12","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines structural iconicity in silent gesture by way of the representation and perception of transitive and intransitive events in silent gesture. Specifically, this study focuses on the Iconicity of Quantity and the Iconicity of Complexity, or the strong cross-linguistic tendency for transitive events to be conceptually and structurally more complex than intransitive ones, and for this property to be represented explicitly in verbal morphology where available. Through silent gesture elicitation and perception studies and follow-up handshape analyses, it is demonstrated that non-signers produce and interpret silent gestures in harmony with these iconicity principles. To support our analysis, we identify and recast previous work on event representations in silent gesture and sign language as manifestations of structural iconicity principles.","PeriodicalId":164096,"journal":{"name":"FEAST. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory","volume":"152 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121519609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The main focus of the paper is to discuss how the complex occurrences of relative clause constructions in different signed languages can highlight dis-/advantages of some methods of data collection and how we can best design studies to fully depict the realities of signed languages’ discourse. I provide an overview of current insights into relative clause constructions in signed languages. I aim to reflect on the challenges works have faced to date and discuss how these might be overcome by pulling in approaches and methods not used (to their full potential) on this research topic so far. Eliciting data is a logical strategy to hopefully gain more insight into how relative clauses work in signed languages - however, we risk eliciting only very specific, limited occurrences and not getting the full picture which can only be found in more complex texts. Therefore, this overview shows how corpus studies on relative clause constructions could be a fruitful addition to the field in the future. To date, there are very few studies that have taken this approach that admittedly poses new challenges of understanding these constructions when they take wildly different forms in naturalistic data and employ markers that are both not obligatory and not limited to this specific construction.
{"title":"Challenges in the research of relative clause constructions in signed languages to date","authors":"Okan Kubus","doi":"10.31009/feast.i4.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31009/feast.i4.10","url":null,"abstract":"The main focus of the paper is to discuss how the complex occurrences of relative clause constructions in different signed languages can highlight dis-/advantages of some methods of data collection and how we can best design studies to fully depict the realities of signed languages’ discourse. I provide an overview of current insights into relative clause constructions in signed languages. I aim to reflect on the challenges works have faced to date and discuss how these might be overcome by pulling in approaches and methods not used (to their full potential) on this research topic so far. Eliciting data is a logical strategy to hopefully gain more insight into how relative clauses work in signed languages - however, we risk eliciting only very specific, limited occurrences and not getting the full picture which can only be found in more complex texts. Therefore, this overview shows how corpus studies on relative clause constructions could be a fruitful addition to the field in the future. To date, there are very few studies that have taken this approach that admittedly poses new challenges of understanding these constructions when they take wildly different forms in naturalistic data and employ markers that are both not obligatory and not limited to this specific construction.","PeriodicalId":164096,"journal":{"name":"FEAST. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126336100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We describe basic morphosyntactic and semantic properties of question-answer pairs (QAPs) collected from the online corpus of Russian Sign Language (RSL). We identified two classes of QAPs: classical and discourse QAPs, which are different in the semantic relation between the question and answer parts. We discovered that non-manual marking and word order in both types of QAPs are different from other constructions involving wh-signs, namely regular questions and free relative clauses. Guided by the similarity between non-manual marking of QAPs and role shift marking, we hypothesize on a possible grammaticalization process connecting the two constructions.
{"title":"Question-answer pairs in Russian Sign Language: a corpus study","authors":"E. Khristoforova, V. Kimmelman","doi":"10.31009/feast.i4.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31009/feast.i4.08","url":null,"abstract":"We describe basic morphosyntactic and semantic properties of question-answer pairs (QAPs) collected from the online corpus of Russian Sign Language (RSL). We identified two classes of QAPs: classical and discourse QAPs, which are different in the semantic relation between the question and answer parts. We discovered that non-manual marking and word order in both types of QAPs are different from other constructions involving wh-signs, namely regular questions and free relative clauses. Guided by the similarity between non-manual marking of QAPs and role shift marking, we hypothesize on a possible grammaticalization process connecting the two constructions.","PeriodicalId":164096,"journal":{"name":"FEAST. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116071811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caro Brosens, Hannes De Durpel, Inez Beukeleers, Beatrijs Wille
How do we know when, with whom and in what context to use a particular sign? Most traditional explanatory dictionaries of oral languages provide clarifying labels indicating the connotation and/or usage of specific words, e.g. archaic, neologism, offensive, euphemism, etc. These clarifying labels are, however, lacking in most sign language lexicographic research. In a continuing effort to improve online sign dictionaries, the expertise center for Flemish Sign Language (the VGTC) is currently conducting preliminary research towards a detailed label system and accompanying methodology suited for sign languages. The objective of this project is two-fold: 1) adapting our electronic lexical database and the online dictionary to make displaying these labels possible, and 2) compiling a practical set of labels primarily suited to Flemish Sign Language (VGT), as well as detailing a functional methodology to determine when (and which) labels of the aforementioned label set should be allocated to which signs. For the latter, a combination of corpus-based analysis and community-based approaches is proposed. This exploratory study has contributed to our wider understanding of label sets and their use, and it has reopened the discussion of languageand modality-specific labels.
{"title":"Towards a functional label set for the online dictionary of Flemish Sign Language","authors":"Caro Brosens, Hannes De Durpel, Inez Beukeleers, Beatrijs Wille","doi":"10.31009/feast.i4.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31009/feast.i4.04","url":null,"abstract":"How do we know when, with whom and in what context to use a particular sign? Most traditional explanatory dictionaries of oral languages provide clarifying labels indicating the connotation and/or usage of specific words, e.g. archaic, neologism, offensive, euphemism, etc. These clarifying labels are, however, lacking in most sign language lexicographic research. In a continuing effort to improve online sign dictionaries, the expertise center for Flemish Sign Language (the VGTC) is currently conducting preliminary research towards a detailed label system and accompanying methodology suited for sign languages. The objective of this project is two-fold: 1) adapting our electronic lexical database and the online dictionary to make displaying these labels possible, and 2) compiling a practical set of labels primarily suited to Flemish Sign Language (VGT), as well as detailing a functional methodology to determine when (and which) labels of the aforementioned label set should be allocated to which signs. For the latter, a combination of corpus-based analysis and community-based approaches is proposed. This exploratory study has contributed to our wider understanding of label sets and their use, and it has reopened the discussion of languageand modality-specific labels.","PeriodicalId":164096,"journal":{"name":"FEAST. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129266320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study investigates shifted indexicals in Hong Kong Sign Language (hereafter HKSL). In elicited data, shifted indexicals are attested in utterances with and without attitude role shift. The data further show that attitude role shift has both quotation-like and non-quotation-like characteristics, leading to the conclusion that neither of the two major accounts for role shift, the Demonstration Account by Davidson (2015) or the Indexical Shifting Operator Account by Schlenker (2017b, 2017a) suffices to fully explain role shift. Moreover, the interpretations of the indexicals seem to depend on the exact form of the embedding predicate. Crucially, a shifted interpretation is available only under what I notate as VERB -2 but not VERB -3. I propose that VERB -2 can act as neutral agreement that leads to ambiguous interpretations of the sentences.
{"title":"Shifted indexicals in Hong Kong Sign Language with(-out) role shift","authors":"L. Gan","doi":"10.31009/feast.i4.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31009/feast.i4.06","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates shifted indexicals in Hong Kong Sign Language (hereafter HKSL). In elicited data, shifted indexicals are attested in utterances with and without attitude role shift. The data further show that attitude role shift has both quotation-like and non-quotation-like characteristics, leading to the conclusion that neither of the two major accounts for role shift, the Demonstration Account by Davidson (2015) or the Indexical Shifting Operator Account by Schlenker (2017b, 2017a) suffices to fully explain role shift. Moreover, the interpretations of the indexicals seem to depend on the exact form of the embedding predicate. Crucially, a shifted interpretation is available only under what I notate as VERB -2 but not VERB -3. I propose that VERB -2 can act as neutral agreement that leads to ambiguous interpretations of the sentences.","PeriodicalId":164096,"journal":{"name":"FEAST. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131601204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Catalan Sign Language ellipsis, role shift, and the QUD","authors":"David Blunier, Giorgia Zorzi","doi":"10.31009/feast.i4.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31009/feast.i4.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":164096,"journal":{"name":"FEAST. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116955474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper proposes a forward model of sign language processing in which abstract holistic postural forms guide the production and recognition of signed language. Internal linguistic evidence based on an ASL corpus and morphological compounds is offered to support the utility of this construct. External evidence from child language acquisition, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic studies are provided to highlight the importance of postural forms in the production and recognition of American Sign Language. I argue that abstract articulatory postural forms play a role in forward modeling accounts of sign language production and recognition.
{"title":"Articulatory postures and forward models in American Sign Language: Linguistic and neuroscience evidence","authors":"D. Corina","doi":"10.31009/feast.i4.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31009/feast.i4.05","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a forward model of sign language processing in which abstract holistic postural forms guide the production and recognition of signed language. Internal linguistic evidence based on an ASL corpus and morphological compounds is offered to support the utility of this construct. External evidence from child language acquisition, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic studies are provided to highlight the importance of postural forms in the production and recognition of American Sign Language. I argue that abstract articulatory postural forms play a role in forward modeling accounts of sign language production and recognition.","PeriodicalId":164096,"journal":{"name":"FEAST. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116898089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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