Agent defocusing in two-participant clauses in Finnish Sign Language
| Autor: | Sanna Nordlund |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Linguistics and Language
Verb Context (language use) Sign language lausetyypit Language and Linguistics constructed action viittomakieli pronominal pointing signs omission agent defocusing passiivi Set (psychology) Plural Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar P101-410 passive Agent defocusing Finnish Sign Language Linguistics viittomat linguistics sign language linguistics Antecedent (grammar) Action (philosophy) suomalainen viittomakieli Psychology Sign (mathematics) |
| Zdroj: | Glossa, Vol 4, Iss 1 (2019) Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 4, No 1 (2019); 82 |
| ISSN: | 2397-1835 |
| Popis: | This article investigates what strategies are used for defocusing the agent in two-participant clauses in FinSL. The question is approached by analyzing a set of data that consists of videotaped informational texts. Several strategies for agent defocusing were found. First, the agent can simply be omitted. Second, the agent can be expressed with a pronominal pointing sign used non-referentially. Pronominal pointing signs that can be used non-referentially include at least the non-first person plural pronominal pointing sign and the first person singular pointing sign, possibly also the first person plural pointing sign. This study also suggests that constructed action is an additional, optional strategy through which the signer can tell the event either from the patient’s or the agent’s perspective. No special passive marking was found, and the form of clauses defocusing the agent does not seem to differ from that of corresponding clauses including a referential agent. The non-referential reading comes from the fact that there is no antecedent to which a zero, an indicating verb or a non-first person pronominal pointing sign could refer, and with first person pronominal pointing signs the interpretation is made based on the context. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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