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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
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Vintar, Špela – Sign Language Studies, 2015
Slovene Sign Language (SZJ) has as yet received little attention from linguists. This article presents some basic facts about SZJ, its history, current status, and a description of the Slovene Sign Language Corpus and Pilot Grammar (SIGNOR) project, which compiled and annotated a representative corpus of SZJ. Finally, selected quantitative data…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Computational Linguistics, Semantics, Statistical Analysis