This paper addresses the question of whether the person category is grammaticalized in sign language personal pronouns. Building on Berenz’s (1996) Body Coordinates Model, I argue that Catalan Sign Language (LSC) encodes the distinction between first, second and third person. To formalize the analysis, a set of three binary spatial features ([prox-imal], [central], [mid]) is assumed. The opposition between positive and negative values in this featural system is claimed to be grammatically relevant in the expression of person distinctions, proving that spatial locations are incorporated into the pronominal system, just like they are into other aspects of sign language grammars. The main con-tribution of this study is that it provides a unified account of person marking that makes it possible to straightforwardly capture person distinctions in the three number values under scrutiny in this investigation (singular, dual and multiple plural).
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FEAST is a regular forum to discuss formal and experimental approaches to sign language grammar. Beside the years when TISLR, the world-wide academic event on sign language research that takes place every three years, is organized, FEAST is normally held every year in the format of an in-presence conference spanning over two or three days, with keynote presenters, non-parallel main sessions and poster sessions. The languages of the conference are ASL/International Sign for sign language and English. In 2020, due to the COVID-19 outbreak in Asia, FEAST was first moved from Hong Kong to Paris with the intent of keeping it an in-presence event and finally held as a fully online event. The paper describes the measures put in place to organize an online Deaf friendly scientific conference.
{"title":"FEAST 2020: A conference 2.0","authors":"C. Hauser","doi":"10.31009/feast.i3.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31009/feast.i3.01","url":null,"abstract":"FEAST is a regular forum to discuss formal and experimental approaches to sign language grammar. Beside the years when TISLR, the world-wide academic event on sign language research that takes place every three years, is organized, FEAST is normally held every year in the format of an in-presence conference spanning over two or three days, with keynote presenters, non-parallel main sessions and poster sessions. The languages of the conference are ASL/International Sign for sign language and English. In 2020, due to the COVID-19 outbreak in Asia, FEAST was first moved from Hong Kong to Paris with the intent of keeping it an in-presence event and finally held as a fully online event. The paper describes the measures put in place to organize an online Deaf friendly scientific conference.","PeriodicalId":164096,"journal":{"name":"FEAST. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125552377","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 present study introduces a novel gap-filling test to elicit plural nouns in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT). As of yet, nominal plurals in NGT have not been described in detail, as eliciting plural nouns is not without challenges. In previous research on NGT (Zwitserlood and Nijhof 1999), native signers were asked to describe pictures of plural objects. However, when describing pictures, the signers automatically also expressed the spatial distribution of the objects depicted on the stimulus picture, using localization. As a consequence, it remains unclear what ‘pure’ plurals – without localization – look like. The goal of our gap-filling task is to disentangle pluralization from localization: participants are asked to insert plural nouns in signed sentence contexts where the spatial distribution of the referents is irrelevant. After piloting the task, five deaf native signers participated. The task succeeded in eliciting pure plural forms that were not spatially distributed, and the results show that NGT optionally employs reduplication to mark the pure plural of nouns. We conclude that our gap-filling task successfully controls for localization, targeting the desired structure without using written language. In future studies, the gap-filling task can be applied to other sign languages, targeting also other construction types.
本研究介绍了一种新的荷兰手语复数名词填空测试方法。到目前为止，NGT中的名词复数还没有被详细描述，因为引出复数名词并非没有挑战。在之前关于NGT的研究中(Zwitserlood and Nijhof 1999)，母语使用者被要求描述多个物体的图片。然而，在描述图片时，手语者也会自动表达刺激图片上描绘的物体的空间分布，使用定位。因此，没有本地化的“纯”复数是什么样子仍然不清楚。我们的空白填补任务的目标是将复数从本地化中解脱出来:参与者被要求在指代物的空间分布不相关的有符号的句子语境中插入复数名词。在试验完成后，五名聋哑人参与了这项任务。该任务成功地引出了非空间分布的纯复数形式，结果表明，NGT可以选择性地使用重复来标记名词的纯复数形式。我们的结论是，我们的空白填充任务成功地控制了本地化，目标是所需的结构，而不使用书面语言。在未来的研究中，空白填补任务可以应用于其他手语，也针对其他结构类型。
{"title":"Fill the gap: A novel test to elicit nominal plurals in Sign Language of the Netherlands","authors":"Cindy van Boven","doi":"10.31009/feast.i3.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31009/feast.i3.05","url":null,"abstract":"The present study introduces a novel gap-filling test to elicit plural nouns in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT). As of yet, nominal plurals in NGT have not been described in detail, as eliciting plural nouns is not without challenges. In previous research on NGT (Zwitserlood and Nijhof 1999), native signers were asked to describe pictures of plural objects. However, when describing pictures, the signers automatically also expressed the spatial distribution of the objects depicted on the stimulus picture, using localization. As a consequence, it remains unclear what ‘pure’ plurals – without localization – look like. The goal of our gap-filling task is to disentangle pluralization from localization: participants are asked to insert plural nouns in signed sentence contexts where the spatial distribution of the referents is irrelevant. After piloting the task, five deaf native signers participated. The task succeeded in eliciting pure plural forms that were not spatially distributed, and the results show that NGT optionally employs reduplication to mark the pure plural of nouns. We conclude that our gap-filling task successfully controls for localization, targeting the desired structure without using written language. In future studies, the gap-filling task can be applied to other sign languages, targeting also other construction types.","PeriodicalId":164096,"journal":{"name":"FEAST. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115688017","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}
Wh-questions have been well studied in many sign languages. There have been many competing analyses like leftward, rightward and remnant movement, to explain the typologically uncommon appearance of wh-signs in the right periphery. In this paper, I focus on wh-questions in Indian Sign Language (ISL). A previous analysis of wh-questions in ISL argues against rightward wh-movement to Spec, CP. Instead, the general ISL whsign (G-WH) can be better analyzed as a syntactic head of a right-branching functional projection in the left periphery of the clause. In this paper, I scrutinize this analysis given for the wh-questions in ISL and attempt to formulate a new analysis based on new data collected online and during fieldwork with five deaf signers in India.
{"title":"Exploring wh-questions in Indian Sign Language","authors":"Neha Kulshreshtha","doi":"10.31009/feast.i3.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31009/feast.i3.03","url":null,"abstract":"Wh-questions have been well studied in many sign languages. There have been many competing analyses like leftward, rightward and remnant movement, to explain the typologically uncommon appearance of wh-signs in the right periphery. In this paper, I focus on wh-questions in Indian Sign Language (ISL). A previous analysis of wh-questions in ISL argues against rightward wh-movement to Spec, CP. Instead, the general ISL whsign (G-WH) can be better analyzed as a syntactic head of a right-branching functional projection in the left periphery of the clause. In this paper, I scrutinize this analysis given for the wh-questions in ISL and attempt to formulate a new analysis based on new data collected online and during fieldwork with five deaf signers in India.","PeriodicalId":164096,"journal":{"name":"FEAST. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131891270","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 comparative study aims to verify if the nominal-internal word order patterns of HKSL and Cantonese are accountable based on Universal 20 (Cinque’s 2005 version), just as has been discussed for other sign languages (e.g. Zhang 2007 on TSL, Mantovan and Geraci 2017 on LIS). Word order patterns of Cantonese have been documented in previous research. As for HKSL, we extracted data from 90 minutes of free conversations in HKSL to identify the patterns. The data came from 2 dyads of native Deaf signers of HKSL. Among the 4281 tokens of nominal word orders extracted, the majority are pronominals (e.g. pointing signs; 44%, 1872 tokens), bare nouns (16%, 696 tokens), bare/modified proper nouns or kinship terms (9%, 374 tokens), modified nouns (12%, 531 tokens) and other constructions (e.g. bare adjectives, bare quantifiers; 19%, 808 tokens). This study bases its analysis on the 12% of modified noun phrases with simple nominals (11%, 472 tokens), i.e. tokens with an overt head noun and at least one of any of the three modifiers: Dem, Num, Adj, excluding those involving a classifier expression. Results reveal that the word order patterns observed in HKSL as well as Cantonese align with the 14 attested patterns as stated in Cinque’s 2005 version of Universal 20; they also correspond to the patterns found in TSL and LIS.1
{"title":"Nominal-internal word order in Hong Kong Sign Language and Cantonese: A Comparative Study","authors":"Jieqiong Li, G. Tang","doi":"10.31009/feast.i3.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31009/feast.i3.04","url":null,"abstract":"This comparative study aims to verify if the nominal-internal word order patterns of HKSL and Cantonese are accountable based on Universal 20 (Cinque’s 2005 version), just as has been discussed for other sign languages (e.g. Zhang 2007 on TSL, Mantovan and Geraci 2017 on LIS). Word order patterns of Cantonese have been documented in previous research. As for HKSL, we extracted data from 90 minutes of free conversations in HKSL to identify the patterns. The data came from 2 dyads of native Deaf signers of HKSL. Among the 4281 tokens of nominal word orders extracted, the majority are pronominals (e.g. pointing signs; 44%, 1872 tokens), bare nouns (16%, 696 tokens), bare/modified proper nouns or kinship terms (9%, 374 tokens), modified nouns (12%, 531 tokens) and other constructions (e.g. bare adjectives, bare quantifiers; 19%, 808 tokens). This study bases its analysis on the 12% of modified noun phrases with simple nominals (11%, 472 tokens), i.e. tokens with an overt head noun and at least one of any of the three modifiers: Dem, Num, Adj, excluding those involving a classifier expression. Results reveal that the word order patterns observed in HKSL as well as Cantonese align with the 14 attested patterns as stated in Cinque’s 2005 version of Universal 20; they also correspond to the patterns found in TSL and LIS.1","PeriodicalId":164096,"journal":{"name":"FEAST. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125731499","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}
Natasha Abner, C. Geraci, Shi Yu, J. Lettieri, Justine Mertz, Anah Salgat
Sign languages are conventionalized linguistic systems that vary across communities of users and change as they are transmitted across generations or come into contact with other languages, signed or spoken. That is, the social and linguistic phenomena that are familiar from the study of spoken language families and historical linguistic analysis of spoken languages are also active in sign languages. The study of sign language families and histories, however, is not as developed as in spoken languages. Here, we discuss the methodological and circumstantial factors contributing to this disparity. We also report on the preliminary stages of a long-term, large-scale study of sign language families. We summarize the family structures suggested by a historical records analysis of 24 sign languages. Given the limitations of this approach for sign languages, however, we also propose a lexicostatistic analysis using contemporary quantitative methods and describe annotation tools and strategies that can facilitate this approach. This research is aimed at improving our understanding of the historical pressures that are shared across language modalities as well as the quantitative and qualitative differences that may exist in the diachrony of sign versus speech. movement for and trajectory of as specified below. co-occur and our system;
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A growing literature has emerged on sign languages describing a particular construction which looks like a question followed by its fragment answer, but which crucially is not interpreted as such. In sign language litterature, it has successively been referred to as pseudoclefts (Wilbur 1996, Branchini 2014), rhetorical questions (Hoza et al. 1997), question-answer constituents (Davidson, Caponigro, and Mayberry 2008), or, more re-cently, Question Answer Pairs (QAP) in Kimmelman and Vink (2017). This last work pro-poses the existence of a grammaticalization process starting with information seeking questions and ending with question-answer constituent, creating a bridge between two of the main analyses proposed. In our article, we extend the bridge to Wilbur’s analysis and beyond. We demonstrate, based on an extensive depiction of French Sign Lan-guage’s (LSF) QAP properties, that the grammaticalization scale proposed in Kimmelman and Vink (2017) has to be further developed to integrate pseudoclefts as its ending point. Through morpho-phonetic, syntactic and semantic evidences, we will show that LSF instantiates a construction which is syntactically closer to pseudoclefts than American Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands but not yet at the point of Italian Sign Language (Branchini 2014), advocating in favor of an intermediate analysis.
越来越多的关于手语的文献描述了一种特殊的结构，它看起来像一个问题，然后是它的片段答案，但关键的是，它并没有被这样解释。在手语文学中，它先后被称为伪语词(Wilbur 1996, Branchini 2014)，反问句(Hoza et al. 1997)，问答成分(Davidson, Caponigro, and Mayberry 2008)，或者最近的Kimmelman和Vink(2017)中的问答对(QAP)。最后一项工作提出了一个语法化过程的存在，从寻求信息的问题开始，以问答成分结束，在两种主要分析之间建立了一座桥梁。在我们的文章中，我们将桥梁延伸到威尔伯的分析以及其他方面。基于对法语手语(LSF) QAP属性的广泛描述，我们证明，Kimmelman和Vink(2017)提出的语法化量表必须进一步发展，以整合伪裂隙作为其终点。通过语音学、句法和语义证据，我们将表明LSF实例化了一种句法上比美国手语和荷兰手语更接近伪裂的结构，但还没有达到意大利手语的程度(Branchini 2014)，主张采用中间分析。
{"title":"Question-answer pairs: the help of LSF","authors":"Charlotte Hauser","doi":"10.31009/FEAST.I2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31009/FEAST.I2.04","url":null,"abstract":"A growing literature has emerged on sign languages describing a particular construction which looks like a question followed by its fragment answer, but which crucially is not interpreted as such. In sign language litterature, it has successively been referred to as pseudoclefts (Wilbur 1996, Branchini 2014), rhetorical questions (Hoza et al. 1997), question-answer constituents (Davidson, Caponigro, and Mayberry 2008), or, more re-cently, Question Answer Pairs (QAP) in Kimmelman and Vink (2017). This last work pro-poses the existence of a grammaticalization process starting with information seeking questions and ending with question-answer constituent, creating a bridge between two of the main analyses proposed. In our article, we extend the bridge to Wilbur’s analysis and beyond. We demonstrate, based on an extensive depiction of French Sign Lan-guage’s (LSF) QAP properties, that the grammaticalization scale proposed in Kimmelman and Vink (2017) has to be further developed to integrate pseudoclefts as its ending point. Through morpho-phonetic, syntactic and semantic evidences, we will show that LSF instantiates a construction which is syntactically closer to pseudoclefts than American Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands but not yet at the point of Italian Sign Language (Branchini 2014), advocating in favor of an intermediate analysis.","PeriodicalId":164096,"journal":{"name":"FEAST. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124102992","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}
Alicia Calderón Verde, Ariel Hernández Hernández, Elena Benedicto
This paper examines the morphological properties of NMM for [mouth] and [eyegaze] and their association with the syntactic realization of the predicate’s subeventive structure. Two different NMM-[mouth] are identified, one for the process subevent ([uu]) and another for the telic subevent ([ph]). The systematic presence of these NMM-[mouth] as grammatical markers of subeventive structure confirms initial findings by Benedicto, Branchini, and Mantovan (2015) in favor of a deconstructivist approach to the predicate subeventive structure. NMM-[eyegaze] is shown to be associated with the argument of the respective subeventive structure: the Undergoer for the process subevent and the EndPoint for the telic subevent.
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This paper provides a preliminary description of evaluative morphology in Italian Sign Language improving a previous study by Petitta, Di Renzo, and Chiari (2015). The analysis of both elicited and corpus data reveals that LIS employs both manual and nonmanual articulators to convey evaluative features. Specifically, dedicated non-manual markers for each evaluative value combine with manual strategies involving the production of adjectives to convey endearment and pejorative, or morphological operations to encode diminutive and augmentative features: (i) manual sequential evaluation: the evaluative feature is conveyed through size and shape specifiers following the sign for the noun and displaying a modified articulation depending on the feature involved; (ii) manual simultaneous evaluation: the manual sign for the noun is modified in its articulation (restricted for the diminutive, enlarged for the augmentative). Overall, the morphological constructions detected fit the typological classification proposed for sign languages as languages exhibiting agglutinative morphology (Schuit 2007), while sharing the abstract properties identified for evaluative morphology in spoken languages, regardless of the different modality employed.
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Research on spoken languages shows that the structure of coordination is typically determined by the parallel architecture of the conjuncts involved, a constraint that we refer to as the “Parallel Structure Constraint” (PSC). Apart from syntactic parallelism, the PSC requires that the conjuncts exhibit the same information structure (IS). We address the structure of coordination and the working of the PSC in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT), using corpus data. Data extracted from the Corpus NGT reveal that the PSC may be violated in this language in that the order of predicate and argument may vary across conjuncts. We claim that this asymmetry results from IS-related syntactic movement, in particular, fronting of a contrastively focused constituent in the second conjunct. It appears that in NGT, movement is at times preferred over prosodic marking in situ, as it is a more salient foregrounding strategy in such complex (bi-clausal) constructions.
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