Pub Date : 2020-10-01Epub Date: 2020-10-30DOI: 10.1075/sll.00048.erg
Rabia Ergin, Ann Senghas, Ray Jackendoff, Lila Gleitman
We investigate how predicates expressing symmetry, asymmetry and non-symmetry are encoded in a newly emerging sign language, Central Taurus Sign Language (CTSL). We find that predicates involving symmetry (i.e., reciprocal and symmetrical actions) differ from those involving asymmetry (i.e., transitive) in their use of the morphological devices investigated here: body segmentation, mirror-image articulators and double perspective. Symmetrical predicates also differ from non-symmetrical ones (i.e., intransitive) in their use of mirror-image configuration. Furthermore, reciprocal actions are temporally sequenced within a linear structure, whereas symmetrical actions are not. Thus, our data reveal that CTSL expresses each type of action with a particular combination of linguistic devices to encode symmetry, asymmetry, and non-symmetry. Furthermore, differences in the use of these devices across age cohorts of CTSL suggest that some have become more conventionalized over time. The same semantic distinctions have been observed - though with different realization - in another emerging sign language, Nicaraguan Sign Language (NSL). This converging suggests that natural human language learning capacities include an expectation to distinguish symmetry, asymmetry and non-symmetry.
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{"title":"The clausal syntax of German Sign Language","authors":"F. Bross","doi":"10.1075/sll.00035.bro","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00035.bro","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43398,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language & Linguistics","volume":"87 1","pages":"267-274"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83437517","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}
Abstract Little research has been conducted on interrogative constructions in Chinese Sign Language (CSL) based on naturalistic data. This paper presents a comprehensive investigation of CSL interrogative constructions. Based on findings from naturalistic data, both manual and non-manual components of these constructions are described and analyzed, revealing a complex system. Firstly, manual markers in content questions consist of two basic wh-signs, what and how-many, which form two series of wh-compounds for more specific information retrieval. As for the manual marking of CSL polar questions, three types of particles are attested, namely yes, a-not-a, and some negators. Non-manual markers work as interrogative markers in two ways: morphologically and prosodically. The former way is realized by mouthings, which can be equaled to suprasegmental markers like tones in spoken language. Prosodic non-manual marking is mainly realized by brow movement while head tilt, eye gaze, etc. are excluded as optional. Considering the spread of brow movement, we find that polar questions without particles are predominantly marked by brow raise spreading over the entire sentence, while in interrogatives with manual markers, brow movement seems to be optional, since its frequency is lower and its spreading behavior less regular. CSL is proposed to be a particle-rich sign language, and some speculations are offered on what may cause this behavior.
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Dans cette these, j’etudie le domaine des mots composes dans les langues des signes. La composition a ete decrite comme etant une strategie d’enrichissement du lexique des langues des signes, meme dans des cas de langues des signes emergentes. J’aborde ce sujet au travers de trois approches principales : typologique/empirique, theorique et experimentale.Dans la partie typologique/empirique, j’apporte une description approfondie des mots composes dans deux langues signees : la LIS et la LSF. Dans ce domaine, ma principale contribution est de proposer une typologie plus exhaustive des classificateurs en y incluant les formes simultanees.Dans la partie theorique, j’apporte une description formelle de la maniere de deriver la typologie complete des mots composes presents dans ces deux langues.Mon objectif premier est de montrer que les mots composes peuvent etre derives de differentes manieres selon leurs proprietes, et que la derivation morpho-syntaxique n’est pas le seul processus qui affecte les options combinatoires de composition. Les processus post-syntaxiques, et particulierement la linearisation, doivent avoir au minimum acces a des representations partielles afin de distinguer les formes qui doivent etre epelees de facon sequentielle et simultanee.Dans la partie experimentale, je cherche a savoir si la reduction phonologique est une condition suffisante pour identifier les mots composes dans les langues signees. Ma principale contribution a ete de montrer que l’importation des criteres d’une langue des signes a une autre doit etre realisee avec une extreme precaution.
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This article reviews Bilingualism and deafness: On language contact in the bilingual acquisition of sign language and written language 978-1-5015-1396-1978-1-5015-0493-8€ 99.95
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There are two main competing views about the nature of sign language role shift within formal semantics today: Quer (2005) and Schlenker (2017a,b), following now standard analyses of indexical shift in spoken languages, analyze it as a so-called ‘monstrous operator’, while Davidson (2015) and Maier (2017), following more traditional and cognitive approaches, analyze it as a form of quotation. Examples of role shift in which some indexicals are shifted and some unshifted pose a prima facie problem for both approaches. In this paper, we propose a pragmatic principle of attraction to regulate the apparent unshifting/unquoting of indexicals in quotational role shift. The analysis is embedded in a systematic empirical investigation of the predictions of the attraction hypothesis for German Sign Language (DGS). Results for the first and second person pronouns (ix 1 and ix 2) support the attraction hypothesis, while results for here are inconclusive.
{"title":"To shift or not to shift","authors":"A. Hübl, E. Maier, M. Steinbach","doi":"10.1075/sll.18004.hub","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.18004.hub","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 There are two main competing views about the nature of sign language role shift within formal semantics today:\u0000 Quer (2005) and Schlenker (2017a,b), following now standard analyses of indexical shift in spoken languages, analyze it as\u0000 a so-called ‘monstrous operator’, while Davidson (2015) and Maier (2017), following more traditional and cognitive approaches, analyze it as a form of quotation.\u0000 Examples of role shift in which some indexicals are shifted and some unshifted pose a prima facie problem for both approaches. In\u0000 this paper, we propose a pragmatic principle of attraction to regulate the apparent unshifting/unquoting of indexicals in\u0000 quotational role shift. The analysis is embedded in a systematic empirical investigation of the predictions of the attraction\u0000 hypothesis for German Sign Language (DGS). Results for the first and second person pronouns (ix\u0000 1 and\u0000 ix\u0000 2) support the attraction hypothesis, while results for here are inconclusive.","PeriodicalId":43398,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language & Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45578054","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}
Abstract This paper provides a description of the distribution of buoys across genres and of their possible functions as discourse markers in French Belgian Sign Language. We selected a sample of dialogic genres – argumentative, explanatory, narrative, and metalinguistic – produced by different signers from the LSFB Corpus. In our dataset, buoys are unequally distributed across genres, and list and fragment buoys are the most frequent. Apart from a pointer and a point buoy, only some list buoys have discourse-marking functions, including enumeration, alternative, and addition. On the basis of the distribution of all types of buoys, the narrative dialogic genre is the most different as compared to the other three genres. It is characterized by a lower frequency of list buoys and a higher frequency of fragment buoys. When focusing on discourse-marking buoys, the explanatory genre attracts the highest number of tokens, which we relate to the higher degree of preparation as compared to the other genres.
{"title":"Describing buoys from the perspective of discourse markers","authors":"Sílvia Gabarró-López","doi":"10.1075/sll.00034.gab","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00034.gab","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper provides a description of the distribution of buoys across genres and of their possible functions as discourse markers in French Belgian Sign Language. We selected a sample of dialogic genres – argumentative, explanatory, narrative, and metalinguistic – produced by different signers from the LSFB Corpus. In our dataset, buoys are unequally distributed across genres, and list and fragment buoys are the most frequent. Apart from a pointer and a point buoy, only some list buoys have discourse-marking functions, including enumeration, alternative, and addition. On the basis of the distribution of all types of buoys, the narrative dialogic genre is the most different as compared to the other three genres. It is characterized by a lower frequency of list buoys and a higher frequency of fragment buoys. When focusing on discourse-marking buoys, the explanatory genre attracts the highest number of tokens, which we relate to the higher degree of preparation as compared to the other genres.","PeriodicalId":43398,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language & Linguistics","volume":"2 1","pages":"210-240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76359873","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":"Lackner, Andrea. 2017. Functions of head and body movements in Austrian Sign Language","authors":"Benjamin Anible","doi":"10.1075/sll.00039.ani","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00039.ani","url":null,"abstract":"This article reviews Functions of head and body movements in Austrian Sign Language 978-1-5015-1633-7978-1-5015-0777-9€ 99.95","PeriodicalId":43398,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language & Linguistics","volume":"86 1","pages":"298-302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73110367","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 article reviews Research methods in sign language studies: A practical guide € 81.30978-1-118-27141-4€ 35.00978-1-118-27142-1€ 31.99978-1-118-34596-2
{"title":"Eleni Orfanidou, Bencie Woll & Gary Morgan (eds.),\u0000 Research methods in sign language studies: A practical\u0000 guide","authors":"C. Occhino, Lynn Hou","doi":"10.1075/sll.00033.occ","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00033.occ","url":null,"abstract":"This article reviews Research methods in sign language studies: A practical guide € 81.30978-1-118-27141-4€ 35.00978-1-118-27142-1€ 31.99978-1-118-34596-2","PeriodicalId":43398,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language & Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43952283","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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