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Arguments and events in serial verb constructions — insights from German Sign Language| title | Arguments and events in serial verb constructions — insights from German Sign Language |
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| start_date | 2022/09/26 |
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| schedule | 14h-16h30 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle 124 & visioconférence |
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| details | séminaire Séries verbales |
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| summary | Serial verb constructions (SVCs) in sign languages remain understudied, and discussions of how event semantics and argument selection are entangled therein are crucially lacking. The present study contributes a formal analysis of these two dimensions in SVCs found in German Sign Language (DGS), which indicates that serializing behaviour remains relatively consistent across languages and modalities. Data from DGS (taken from the DGS Corpus project) reveal that canonical functions of “asymmetrical” SVCs (Aikhenvald & Dixon 2006) — such as manner–path decomposition of motion events and the introduction of new thematic relations such as instruments and benefactives — comply with the same constraints observed in spoken language (Bohnemeyer et al. 2007), despite modality-specific differences in morphosyntax. A preliminary analysis suggests that tense iconicity (Haspelmath 2016) conditions the conventionalization of high-frequency verbs in SVCs. |
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| responsibles | Soare, Cabredo Hofherr |
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| submitted | published | | 2022/11/22 16:22 UTC |
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