Negation and polar question–answer clauses in South African Sign Language
| Autor: | Kate Huddlestone |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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SASL
030506 rehabilitation 050101 languages & linguistics Linguistics and Language Philosophy 05 social sciences Proposition Characterization (mathematics) Sign language African sign language Language and Linguistics Linguistics 03 medical and health sciences Negation Fragment (logic) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0305 other medical science computer computer.programming_language Sign (mathematics) |
| Zdroj: | Sign Language & Linguistics. 24:63-86 |
| ISSN: | 1569-996X 1387-9316 |
| DOI: | 10.1075/sll.19014.hud |
| Popis: | This paper contributes to the typological debate of whether sign languages should be divided into manual versus non-manual dominant languages, w.r.t. negation, a distinction that has recently been challenged (Johnston 2018) or argued to be too radical (Oomen & Pfau 2017), by providing a characterization of negation in South African Sign Language (SASL). It has also been observed in several sign languages that a construction which consists of a yes-no question followed by a negative fragment answer, both produced by the same speaker, can be used to negate a proposition. While this question-answer pair construction has received attention in the recent sign language literature, it is only mentioned in passing in the literature on negation. In this paper, I provide an analysis of these polar question-answer clauses as a grammaticalized negation strategy in SASL, following Caponigro and Davidson’s (2011) analysis of this construction in ASL. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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