Question-Answer Pairs in Sign Language of the Netherlands
| Autor: | Lianne Vink, Vadim Kimmelman |
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| Přispěvatelé: | ACLC (FGw) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Grammar American Sign Language media_common.quotation_subject Sign (semiotics) 06 humanities and the arts Sign language Grammaticalization Language and Linguistics language.human_language Linguistics Variation (linguistics) 0602 languages and literature language Rhetorical question Sociology Computational linguistics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Sign Language Studies, 17(4), 417-449. Gallaudet University Press |
| ISSN: | 0302-1475 |
| DOI: | 10.1353/sls.2017.0013 |
| Popis: | Several sign languages of the world utilize a construction that consists of a question followed by an answer, both of which are produced by the same signer. For American Sign Language, this construction has been analyzed as a discourse-level rhetorical question construction (Hoza et al. 1997), as a single-sentence question-answer pair (Caponigro and Davidson 2011), and as wh -clefts (Wilbur 1996). In this article, we analyze this construction in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT) based on corpus data. We demonstrate that its properties show a great deal of variation, making it impossible to apply any of the previous accounts to the NGT data. In particular, we found both discourse-level combinations of questions and answers, and single sentence structures resembling wh -clefts. We argue that this variation is a reflex of grammaticalization of discourse-level rhetorical strategy into a single-sentence construction functionally similar to wh -clefts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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