Cormier, K;
(1998)
Grammatical and Anaphoric Agreement in American Sign Language.
Masters thesis (OTHER), UNSPECIFIED.
Abstract
Previously, researchers of ASL have proposed that structural agreement exists in all ASL sentences (e.g., Aarons et al. 1992), or that agreement exists in sentences containing one type of verb but not with other types (Lillo-Martin 1986). Following Bresnan & Mchombo (1987), I suggest that there are two types of locus agreement that occur in ASL, depending on whether the verb has overt or non-overt arguments. These two types of agreement are referred to as grammatical and anaphoric agreement. The interaction of the locus agreement feature with these types of agreement will be presented using an analysis within the framework of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). Using as a basis the HPSG analysis of locus agreement presented in Cormier, Wechsler & Meier (1998), I will use argument structure to account for grammatical agreement and adjunction to account for anaphoric agreement. This analysis captures the fact that either grammatical or anaphoric agreement can occur without significantly changing the meaning of the sentence. Thus the real difference between grammatical and anaphoric agreement lies simply in the overt/non-overt nature of the verb’s arguments.
| Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Qualification: | OTHER |
| Title: | Grammatical and Anaphoric Agreement in American Sign Language |
| Event: | University of Texas at Austin |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices 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/51397 |
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