Schembri, A;
Fenlon, J;
Cormier, KA;
(2018)
On verb ‘agreement’ in sign languages: Indicating verbs as typologically unique constructions.
Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
, 3
(1)
, Article 89. 10.5334/gjgl.468.
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Abstract
In this paper, we present arguments for an analysis of indicating verbs, building on Liddell (2000), as a typologically unique, unimodal fusion of signs and pointing gestures used for reference tracking. This contrasts with many formalist analyses that assume that directionality in indicating verbs constitutes an agreement marking system. While exploring some of the debate in the literature about these forms, we propose a model of indicating verbs within a Construction Grammar framework that compares them to multimodal constructions in spoken languages. We explain how our model of indicating verbs appear to align with a growing body of research on co-speech gesture and is supported by some recent findings about these verbs from corpus-based studies of sign languages.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | On verb ‘agreement’ in sign languages: Indicating verbs as typologically unique constructions |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.5334/gjgl.468 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.468 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | sign language; agreement; directionality; deixis; multimodal; gesture |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Linguistics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10043909 |
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