Adam C Schembri
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Adam C Schembri deposited Indicating verbs as typologically unique constructions: Reconsidering verb ‘agreement’ in sign languages in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoIn this paper, we present arguments for an analysis of indicating verbs, building on Liddell (2000), as a typologically unique, unimodal fusion of signs and pointing gestures used for reference tracking. This contrasts with many formalist analyses that assume that directionality in indicating verbs constitutes an agreement marking system. While…[Read more]
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Adam C Schembri's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months ago
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Adam C Schembri deposited Indicating verbs as typologically unique constructions: Reconsidering verb ‘agreement’ in sign languages on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months ago
In this paper, we present arguments for an analysis of indicating verbs, building on Liddell (2000), as a typologically unique, unimodal fusion of signs and pointing gestures used for reference tracking. This contrasts with many formalist analyses that assume that directionality in indicating verbs constitutes an agreement marking system. While…[Read more]
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Adam C Schembri's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months ago