Browsing Department of Linguistics, Literary and Aestetic Studies by Author "Oomen, Marloes"
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Argument Structure of Classifier Predicates : Canonical and Non-canonical Mappings in Four Sign Languages
Kimmelman, Vadim; De Lint, Vanja; De Vos, Connie; Oomen, Marloes; Pfau, Roland; Vink, Lianne; Aboh, Enoch (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-08)We analyze argument structure of whole-entity and handling classifier predicates in four sign languages (Russian Sign Language, Sign Language of the Netherlands, German Sign Language, and Kata Kolok) using parallel datasets ... -
Body-anchored verbs and argument omission in two sign languages
Oomen, Marloes; Kimmelman, Vadim (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
Börstell, Carl; Jantunen, Tommi; Kimmelman, Vadim; De Lint, Vanja; Mesch, Johanna; Oomen, Marloes (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 ...