This paper examines backgrounding strategies for human agents in Catalan Sign Language, that is, constructions featuring human agents that are non-referential. We identify and analyze four types of agent-backgrounding strategies: subjectless constructions, indefinite pronouns, the impersonal axis, and general nouns. Extending on previous work, we offer a description and a semantico-pragmatic analysis of each construction.
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Meltem Kelepir, Asli Özkul, Elvan Tamyürek Özparlak
This paper investigates agent-backgrounding constructions in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). TİD displays many of the agent-backgrounding strategies reported in the literature that signed (and spoken) languages employ (Barberà & Cabredo Hofherr, this volume). Use of non-specific indefinite pronominals is a major strategy, and this paper is the first study that identifies these forms in TİD. Moreover, we show that TİD has ways of marking clusivity distinctions of indefinite arguments, and has a special sign that derives exclusive indefinite pronominals, other. We argue that (i) whereas lateral-high R-locus is unambiguously associated with non-specificity, non-high (lateral and central) loci are underspecified in terms of specificity; (ii) the R-locus of indefinite arguments observed in agent-backgrounding contexts in TİD consists of two spatial features [+high] and [+lateral] which express non-specificity and exclusivity. This study further shows that clusivity, usually associated with personal pronouns, must be extended to indefinite pronouns.
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This paper presents a semiotic study of the distribution of a type of size depiction in lexical signs in six sign languages. Recently, a growing number of studies are focusing on the distribution of two representation techniques, i.e. the use of entity handshapes and handling handshapes for the depiction of hand-held tools (e.g. Ortega et al. 2014). Padden et al. (2013) find that there is cross-linguistic variation in the use of this pair of representation techniques. This study looks at variation in a representation technique that has not been systematically studied before, i.e. the delimitation of a stretch of space to depict the size of a referent, or space-based distance for size depiction. It considers the question whether the cross-linguistic variation in the use of this representation technique is governed by language-specific patterning as well (cf. Padden et al. 2013). This study quantifies and compares the occurrence of space-based distance for size depiction in the lexicons of six sign languages, three of Western European origin, and three of West African origin. It finds that sign languages differ significantly from each other in their frequency of use of this depiction type. This result thus corroborates that the selection and distribution of representation techniques does not solely depend on features of the depicted image, but also on language-specific patterning in the distribution of representation techniques, and it adds another dimension of iconic depiction in which sign languages may vary from each other (in addition to the entity/handling handshape distinction). Moreover, the results appear to be areally defined, with the three European languages using this representation technique significantly more often than the three African languages.
本文从符号学的角度研究了六种手语词汇符号中一种尺寸描述的分布。最近，越来越多的研究集中在两种表示技术的分布上，即使用实体手型和处理手型来描述手持工具(例如Ortega et al. 2014)。Padden et al.(2013)发现在使用这对表示技术时存在跨语言差异。这项研究着眼于以前没有系统研究过的表示技术的变化，即划分一段空间来描绘一个参考物的大小，或者基于空间的距离来描述大小。它考虑的问题是，使用这种表示技术的跨语言差异是否也受特定语言模式的支配(参见Padden et al. 2013)。本研究量化并比较了六种手语词汇中基于空间距离的大小描述，三种来自西欧，三种来自西非。研究发现，手语在使用这种描述类型的频率上存在显著差异。因此，这一结果证实了表征技术的选择和分布不仅取决于所描绘图像的特征，还取决于表征技术分布中的语言特定模式，并且它增加了符号描述的另一个维度，其中手语可能彼此不同(除了实体/处理手形的区别)。此外，结果似乎是真正明确的，三种欧洲语言使用这种表示技术的频率明显高于三种非洲语言。
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This paper contains the first description of impersonal reference in Russian Sign Language (RSL). Impersonal reference has been investigated using a variety of elicitation techniques. It has been found that RSL uses a variety of strategies, namely pro-drop, an indefinite pronoun someone, a plural pronoun ix pl, and probably a second-person pronoun ix 2 in impersonal contexts. The impersonal strategies in RSL follow the general typological tendencies previously identified for spoken languages (Gast & Van der Auwera 2013), and do not show obvious modality effects (such as described by Barberà & Quer 2013). Some impersonal strategies show evidence of influence of spoken/written Russian in the form of borrowing and/or code-switching.
本文首次对俄语手语中的人称指称进行了描述。非人格化参考已被调查使用各种引出技术。研究发现，在非人称语境中，RSL使用了多种策略，即pro-drop、不定代词someone、复数代词ix pl以及可能的第二人称代词ix 2。非人格语中的非人格语策略遵循了之前在口语中发现的一般类型倾向(Gast & Van der Auwera 2013)，并且没有表现出明显的情态效应(如barber & Quer 2013所描述的)。一些非人格化策略以借用和/或语码转换的形式显示了俄语口语/书面语的影响。
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The work of Gemma Barbera and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr on this special issue, as well as the workshops on Sign Languages and R-impersonals in Paris, February 2015, and Barcelona, June 2015, were funded by the ANR / DFG under grant ANR-11-FRAL-0011, Towards a typology of human impersonal pronouns (Typoimp) ANR/ DFG, awarded to Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, UMR 7023 (CNRS & Paris-8), and Volker Gast, Jena. Their support is gratefully acknowledged. This work has also been partially possible thanks to the SIGN-HUB project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 693349, to the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and FEDER Funds (FFI2015-68594-P), and to the Government of the Generalitat de Catalunya (2014 SGR 698).
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The present paper offers a first systematic approach to the expression of impersonal human reference in French Sign Language (LSF). It extends and deepens a prior study carried out by the authors on the basis of a large scale discourse corpus. The description proposed here is based primarily on data elicited through a specialised questionnaire on impersonal human reference (Barberà & Cabredo Hofherr, this volume), initially developed for spoken languages and adapted for sign languages. The strategies revealed are compared with those discussed in our prior study. We begin with a brief review of the literature on impersonal human reference in spoken and sign languages, and a presentation of our theoretical framework for the analysis of LSF. We then elaborate on our methodology and the issues raised by the elicitation protocol adopted, from initial stages of its preparation to the representation of our data. We finally present and discuss the main strategies we highlighted for the expression of impersonal reference in LSF.
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This paper discusses R-impersonals in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL). As evidenced in our questionnaire and conversation data, R-impersonals in HKSL typically make use of null forms, the non-specific indefinite determiner (i.e., onedet-path (someone)/onedet-path (anyone)), distinguished by non-manual markers), and, occasionally, the Chinese character sign human/person. HKSL does not show impersonal uses of personal pronouns (e.g., they, you) which are commonly found in spoken languages. The nominal strategies are determined by the contexts and the referential properties of the impersonal referents, and they differ in the use of space in representing the impersonal referents in subsequent discourse. R-impersonal referents encoded by onedet-path (someone)/onedet-path (anyone) are associated with an area of the upper part of the ipsilateral side of the signing space, but they can still be assigned to a specific locus if the subsequent discourse requires locative information. Impersonal referents introduced by null forms or the Chinese character sign human/person are typically not spatially anchored.
{"title":"R-impersonals in Hong Kong Sign Language","authors":"Felix Sze, G. Tang","doi":"10.1075/SLL.00021.SZE","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/SLL.00021.SZE","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper discusses R-impersonals in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL). As evidenced in our questionnaire and\u0000 conversation data, R-impersonals in HKSL typically make use of null forms, the non-specific indefinite determiner (i.e.,\u0000 onedet-path\u0000 (someone)/onedet-path\u0000 (anyone)), distinguished by non-manual markers),\u0000 and, occasionally, the Chinese character sign human/person. HKSL does not show impersonal uses of personal pronouns\u0000 (e.g., they, you) which are commonly found in spoken languages. The nominal strategies are determined by the\u0000 contexts and the referential properties of the impersonal referents, and they differ in the use of space in representing the\u0000 impersonal referents in subsequent discourse. R-impersonal referents encoded by onedet-path\u0000 \u0000 (someone)/onedet-path\u0000 (anyone) are associated with an area of the upper part of the ipsilateral side\u0000 of the signing space, but they can still be assigned to a specific locus if the subsequent discourse requires locative\u0000 information. Impersonal referents introduced by null forms or the Chinese character sign human/person are typically not\u0000 spatially anchored.","PeriodicalId":43398,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language & Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48156833","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":"Universal quantification in the nominal domain in American Sign Language (The University of Texas at Austin, 2017)","authors":"E. I. Liskova","doi":"10.1075/SLL.00026.LIS","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/SLL.00026.LIS","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43398,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language & Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44615372","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 thesis gives a description and a syntactic analysis for coordination and gapping in conjunction in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) within the framework of Generative Grammar and Minimalism. Regarding coordination, Coordination Phrase (CoP) is proposed as the category for conjunctive, disjunctive and adversative coordination, assuming that the conjuncts are specifiers and complements of CoP in a right-branching coordination structure. The specific derivation for each types of coordination is then applied. As for gapping in conjunction, in LSC it shows similarities with VP-ellipsis, especially because it can appear also in subordination. Moreover, the availability of only distributed scope negation (¬A&¬B) and the presence of contrastive topic and contrastive focus require a large coordination structure, that is, CP coordination. In order to derive gapping, I propose movement of the arguments to TopP and FocP followed by the deletion of TP at PF, with [E] feature in the head of FocP.
{"title":"Coordination and gapping in Catalan Sign Language\u0000 (LSC)","authors":"Giorgia Zorzi","doi":"10.1075/sll.00031.zor","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00031.zor","url":null,"abstract":"This thesis gives a description and a syntactic analysis for coordination and gapping in conjunction in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) within the framework of Generative Grammar and Minimalism. Regarding coordination, Coordination Phrase (CoP) is proposed as the category for conjunctive, disjunctive and adversative coordination, assuming that the conjuncts are specifiers and complements of CoP in a right-branching coordination structure. The specific derivation for each types of coordination is then applied. As for gapping in conjunction, in LSC it shows similarities with VP-ellipsis, especially because it can appear also in subordination. Moreover, the availability of only distributed scope negation (¬A&¬B) and the presence of contrastive topic and contrastive focus require a large coordination structure, that is, CP coordination. In order to derive gapping, I propose movement of the arguments to TopP and FocP followed by the deletion of TP at PF, with [E] feature in the head of FocP.","PeriodicalId":43398,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language & Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2018-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45373323","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 status of syntactic resultative constructions has been disputed in the American Sign Language (ASL) literature. These are single sentences such as “Mary hammered the metal flat,” where two predicates share the same object and an event (hammered) causes the affected object (the metal) to change state (flat) as a result. While not all languages permit such constructions, this study shows that (several) alternate multi-sentential analyses can be ruled out. WH-clefts are used to provide a test for independent clausal boundaries, providing additional support that American Sign Language (ASL) permits resultative constructions. We also observe possible word order variations and note common features of the result predicates in these constructions.
句法结果结构在美国手语文学中的地位一直存在争议。这些句子都是单句，比如“Mary hamed the metal flat”，其中两个谓词共享同一个对象，一个事件（hamed）导致受影响的对象（金属）因此改变状态（flat）。虽然不是所有的语言都允许这样的结构，但这项研究表明，可以排除（几种）交替的多句子分析。WH分隔符用于提供独立从句边界的测试，为美国手语（ASL）允许结果结构提供了额外的支持。我们还观察了可能的语序变化，并注意到这些结构中结果谓词的共同特征。
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