Asymmetry and Contrast: Coordination in Sign Language of the Netherlands
This paper investigates coordination in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT). We offer an account for a typologically unusual coordination pattern found in this language. We show that the conjuncts of a coordinated structure in NGT may violate a constraint governing coordinated structures in spoken languages, which we refer to as the ‘Parallel Structure Constraint’. The violation consists in asymmetric fronting in the second conjunct of a coordinated structure. We argue that a violation of the Parallel Structure Constraint is acceptable in NGT in order to express a contrast across the conjun... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2021 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Glossa: a journal of general linguistics ; Contrastive, given, new - encoding varieties of topic and focus ; volume 35, issue 1 ; ISSN 2397-1835 |
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Open Library of the Humanities
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Schlagwörter: | Linguistics and Language / Language and Linguistics |
Sprache: | unknown |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27221073 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5872 |
This paper investigates coordination in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT). We offer an account for a typologically unusual coordination pattern found in this language. We show that the conjuncts of a coordinated structure in NGT may violate a constraint governing coordinated structures in spoken languages, which we refer to as the ‘Parallel Structure Constraint’. The violation consists in asymmetric fronting in the second conjunct of a coordinated structure. We argue that a violation of the Parallel Structure Constraint is acceptable in NGT in order to express a contrast across the conjuncts. Hence asymmetric reordering in the second conjunct is a strategy that allows signers to obtain the desired strength of marking when in situ marking is insufficient.