Indicating verbs as typologically unique constructions: Reconsidering verb 'agreement' in sign languages

被引：36

作者：

Schembri, Adam ^{[1
]}

Cormier, Kearsy ^{[2
]}

Fenlon, Jordan ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Birmingham, English Language & Linguist, 3 Elms Rd, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England

[2] UCL, Deafness Cognit & Language Res Ctr, 49 Gordon Sq, London WC1H 0PD, England

[3] Heriot Watt Univ, Sch Social Sci, Languages & Intercultural Studies, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, Midlothian, Scotland

来源：

GLOSSA-A JOURNAL OF GENERAL LINGUISTICS | 2018年 / 3卷 / 01期

基金：

英国经济与社会研究理事会;

关键词：

sign language; agreement; directionality; deixis; multimodal; gesture; EYE GAZE; LINGUISTIC STATUS; GESTURE; GRAMMAR; SPACE; GRAMMATICALIZATION; PERSPECTIVE; AUXILIARIES; MORPHOLOGY; ARGUMENTS;

D O I：

10.5334/gjgl.468

中图分类号：

H0 [语言学];

学科分类号：

030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;

摘要：

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.

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