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Direct linkNoschese, Emily Jo – Sign Language Studies, 2023
This article discusses the positioning of "wh" words in Modern Laos Sign Language. Research indicates that there are two common patterns for the position of "wh" words in spoken languages: the initial position and in situ (Dryer 2013). However, in some sign languages, it seems that "wh" word positioning is…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Grammar, Foreign Countries, Speech Communication
Kimmelman, Vadim; Vink, Lianne – Sign Language Studies, 2017
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…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Language Variation, Sentence Structure, Computational Linguistics
Massone, Maria Ignacia; Curiel, Monica – Sign Language Studies, 2004
This article focuses on word order - the order of constituents in the sentence - as one way in which languages establish the relationship between a verb and its arguments. The spoken languages of the world have been classified into three, major word-order types: SVO, VSO, and SOV. Greenberg' work (1963) on language typology has been a stimulus to…
Descriptors: Semantics, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Sentence Structure, Language Research
