Browsing Faculty of Humanities by Subject "sign languages"
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Body-anchored verbs and argument omission in two sign languages
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-03-26)Using quantitative methods, we analyze naturalistic corpus data in two sign languages, German Sign Language and Russian Sign Language, to study subject-omission patterns. We find that, in both languages, the interpretation ... -
Transitivity prominence within and across modalities
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-12-31)We investigate transitivity prominence of verbs across signed and spoken languages, based on data from both valency dictionaries and corpora. Our methodology relies on the assumption that dictionary data and corpus-based ...