Iconicity and Verb Agreement
Based on the analysis of naturalistic corpus data, this book puts forward the proposal that all verbs in German Sign Language grammatically agree with their arguments – even if agreement is not always overtly realized. This motivates a unified syntactic analysis of constructions with verbs of all ty...
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| Format: | Online |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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De Gruyter
2025
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| Accés en línia: | ONIX_20250507_9783110742787_5 |
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| Sumari: | Based on the analysis of naturalistic corpus data, this book puts forward the proposal that all verbs in German Sign Language grammatically agree with their arguments – even if agreement is not always overtly realized. This motivates a unified syntactic analysis of constructions with verbs of all types, thus presenting a novel solution to the typological puzzle that supposedly only a subset of verbs agree in sign languages around the world. |
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