American Sign Language (ASL) sentences are understood as constructed around a topic-comment, rather than a subject-predicate, relation, but topic constituents are not well understood. This study examines topic-marked constituents in the context of discourse negotiation, suggesting that there are two sources for semantic material that is coded as topics in ASL. These are first, pragmatic contexts that are external to the discourse event, and second, the syntactic structure of the discourse itself. This study is based on two ASL narrative texts which were coded for topic and non-topic constituents and seeks to familiarized the interpreter with the grammatical structure of ASL. This way, the ...
<p>In signed and spoken language sentences, imperative mood and the corresponding speech acts such a...
<p>In signed and spoken language sentences, imperative mood and the corresponding speech acts such a...
<p>In signed and spoken language sentences, imperative mood and the corresponding speech acts such a...
In the first linguistic analysis of American Sign Language (ASL) ever published, Stokoe (1960) used ...
In the visual-spatial modality, signers indicate old, new, or contrastive information using certain ...
This chapter demonstrates that the Information Structure notions Topic and Focus are relevant for si...
One of the oldest references to people using their hands, heads and other parts of the body to signi...
In this paper we describe topic marking in Russian Sign Language (RSL) and Sign Language of the Neth...
This dissertation investigates the event structure of ASL. Every sentence has a temporal schema tha...
Under embargo until: 2022-09-12This chapter discusses the terminology commonly used in the informati...
<p>In signed and spoken language sentences, imperative mood and the corresponding speech acts such a...
<p>In signed and spoken language sentences, imperative mood and the corresponding speech acts such a...
<p>In signed and spoken language sentences, imperative mood and the corresponding speech acts such a...
<p>In signed and spoken language sentences, imperative mood and the corresponding speech acts such a...
<p>In signed and spoken language sentences, imperative mood and the corresponding speech acts such a...
<p>In signed and spoken language sentences, imperative mood and the corresponding speech acts such a...
<p>In signed and spoken language sentences, imperative mood and the corresponding speech acts such a...
<p>In signed and spoken language sentences, imperative mood and the corresponding speech acts such a...
In the first linguistic analysis of American Sign Language (ASL) ever published, Stokoe (1960) used ...
In the visual-spatial modality, signers indicate old, new, or contrastive information using certain ...
This chapter demonstrates that the Information Structure notions Topic and Focus are relevant for si...
One of the oldest references to people using their hands, heads and other parts of the body to signi...
In this paper we describe topic marking in Russian Sign Language (RSL) and Sign Language of the Neth...
This dissertation investigates the event structure of ASL. Every sentence has a temporal schema tha...
Under embargo until: 2022-09-12This chapter discusses the terminology commonly used in the informati...
<p>In signed and spoken language sentences, imperative mood and the corresponding speech acts such a...
<p>In signed and spoken language sentences, imperative mood and the corresponding speech acts such a...
<p>In signed and spoken language sentences, imperative mood and the corresponding speech acts such a...
<p>In signed and spoken language sentences, imperative mood and the corresponding speech acts such a...
<p>In signed and spoken language sentences, imperative mood and the corresponding speech acts such a...
<p>In signed and spoken language sentences, imperative mood and the corresponding speech acts such a...
<p>In signed and spoken language sentences, imperative mood and the corresponding speech acts such a...
<p>In signed and spoken language sentences, imperative mood and the corresponding speech acts such a...