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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Autor principal: Oomen, Marloes
Format: Online
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: 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.