Verb agreement, negation, and aspectual marking in Egyptian sign language
| dc.contributor.advisor | Brustad, Kristen | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Meier, Richard P. | |
| dc.creator | Fan, Ryan Carl | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-02-03T17:42:26Z | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-22T22:27:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-01-22T22:27:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-12 | en |
| dc.date.submitted | December 2014 | en |
| dc.date.updated | 2015-02-03T17:42:26Z | en |
| dc.description | text | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This research represents an initial attempt at a linguistic analysis of the grammar of Egyptian Sign Language (LIM). The paper addresses verbal agreement, negation, and aspectual marking in LIM and frames these grammatical features in a typological context. Particular attention is paid to the class of directional verbs, which spatially inflect to agree with their arguments, and the sub-class of backward directional verbs. The agreement structures of these verbs, as well as suppletive imperative verbal forms, generally pattern with directional verbs in other signed languages; this paper analyzes apparent exceptions in relation to similar irregularities in other signed languages. There is an unusually large inventory of negative-marking strategies and an average-sized set of aspectual markers in LIM. Among them are crosslinguistically uncommon patterns such as frustrative (non-success/non-achievement) aspectual marking, a negative imperative, and possibly also morphological negation via either handshape change or palm-orientation reversal. The analyses and questions presented here lay the groundwork for future research in LIM and other signed languages. | en |
| dc.description.department | Middle Eastern Studies | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/28287 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.subject | Egyptian sign language | en |
| dc.subject | Signed language | en |
| dc.subject | Sign linguistics | en |
| dc.subject | Sign typology | en |
| dc.title | Verb agreement, negation, and aspectual marking in Egyptian sign language | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |