![]() Program design and development are ongoing, Researchers, and the features of version 2.0 are described in SignStream isĭistributed on a non-profit basis to educators, students, and Useful for linguistic research on signed langauges and the SignStream is a MacOS application that providesĪ single computing environment within which to view, annotate,Īnalyze, and search through video and/or audio data, making it SignStream: A Database Tool for Research on In this paper as signed by native signers Video examples illustrating the constructions discussed Structure in the DP and IP: The Cartography of Syntactic Of the mapping of functional projections. Our recent research on the syntax of ASL relevant to the issue In this article, we summarize the major findings of ![]() Markings provide evidence of hierarchical structure and phrasalīoundaries. The distribution and intensity of these grammatical Potentially over phrasal domains, in parallel with manual Of particular gestures on the head and upper body that occur Languages, ASL, the focus of this article, has non-manualĮxpressions of many of the major syntactic features postulated The architecture of functional projections. Signed languages provide a unique type of evidence of The Distribution of Functional Projections in ASL: Evidenceįrom Overt Expressions of Syntactic Features Under consideration from the typical to include the non-typicalĪs well, along a dimension appropriate in the context. Its function is to widen the domain of possibilities Sort as that proposed for English 'any' by Kadmon & Landman Semantically in terms of a domain-widening effect of the same "uncertainty" in various ways, which can be formalized Particle is distinct from that sign in terms of articulation,įunction, and distribution. We show here that,ĭespite its similarity to the question sign "WHAT", the We describe here the characteristics of a veryįrequently-occurring ASL indefinite focus particle, which has Neidle (2003)Ī Particle of Indefiniteness in American Sign Signed by native signers will be availableĬonlin, F., P. Illustrating the constructions discussed in this paper as Further support for thisĪnalysis comes from the distribution of an indefinite focus This account provides an explanationįor the syntactic and semantic differences between the two Relativized Minimality explains why non-focused Projection they then undergo wh-movement to the clause-final ![]() It isĪrgued that focused wh-phrases move to the specifier of this More generally, 'if', 'when,' and relative clauses. Left periphery above TP that houses not only focused DPs but, Overt wh-movement correlates with a reading on which Situ or in a CP-final position (in which non wh-phrases do notĪppear). In ASL questions, the wh-phrase may appear either in Language across modalities: ASL focus and question Studies on Agreement (2006), Edited by João Costa and Maria Cristina Figueiredo Silva, 203–222. Thus, it occurrence is dependent on the semantics of the sentence, but when it does occur, it serves to mark not only focus but also subject agreement. In this paper, we reconsider the function of head tilt, arguing that it is, in fact, a focus marker that incorporates expression of subject agreement. One unresolved puzzle has been the seeming optionality of these markings. In intransitive clauses and non-possessive DP's, agreement with the main NP is expressed by heat tile or eye gaze or both. In transitive clauses and possessive DP's, head tilt toward the location in space associated with the subject marks subjct agreement, whereas object agreement is marked by an eye gaze toward the location associated with the object. The morphological expression of agreement on a subclass of verbs, so-called agreeing verbs, has been studied for some time (Padden 1983, e.g.), but the discovery of the systematic non-manual component is relatively recent (Bahan 1996 MacLaughlin 1997). In ASL, phi-features - associated not only with number and person but also with referential information - are instantiated spatially through both the manual articulation of lexicla items and non-manual markings (gestures of t he upper body that co-occur in parallel with manual signing). This paper presents an account of the expression of syntactic agreement in American Sign Language (ASL). Syntactic agreement across language modalities: American Sign Language. ![]()
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