- Author
- Title
- Antisymmetry and sign languages: a comparison between NGT and LIS
- Supervisors
- Co-supervisors
- Award date
- 28 September 2011
- Number of pages
- 348
- Publisher
- Utrecht: LOT
- ISBN
- 9789460930676
- Document type
- PhD thesis
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities (FGw)
- Institute
- Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
- Abstract
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This comparative study on the Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT) and Italian Sign Language (LIS) addresses and discusses a wide range of aspects regarding grammar the position of the adjectives, numerals and demonstratives, the linear ordering of selected aspectual markers and modals, topicalization, negation, imperative and interrogative clauses, as well as conditional clauses and LIS relative clauses. The study shows that LIS and NGT display a considerable degree of cross-and intra-linguistic variation and tries to assess whether the observed differences can be derived from one universal specifier-head-complement deep structure, shared by all sign and spoken languages. Although further aspects of LIS and NGT must still be examined, the study shows that an antisymmetric analysis of these sign languages is certainly worth undertaking.
- Note
- LOT dissertation series 284
Research conducted at: Universiteit van Amsterdam - Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.352505
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Thesis
Cover
Title pages
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations for names of languages
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The structure of DP
Chapter 3: The structure of the simple sentence: aspect, modals and negation
Chapter 4: The structure of the left periphery: sentence types and topicalization
Chapter 5: The structure of the left periphery: combinations of clauses
Chapter 6: Conclusions and avenues for future research
Summary
Samenvatting
Riassunto
References
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