SIMULTANEITY IN POLYPREDICATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN RUSSIAN SIGN LANGUAGE

Valeriya Dushkina ()
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Valeriya Dushkina: National Research University Higher School of Economics

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Abstract: While spoken languages primarily make use of the acoustic-auditory modality, sign languages use visual-gestural modality. This results in structural differences between those languages. Sign language properties are especially intriguing due to three domains used to convey linguistic information: simultaneity, iconicity and use of space (Meier 2012). The main purpose of my research is to define modality-specific strategies of marking overlapping events in Russian Sign Language (RSL), e.g. simultaneous production of two predicates. I will show what types of syntactic constructions are used to mark simultaneity and what are the criteria for fully-simultaneous production of predicates

Keywords: simultaneity; polypredicative constructions; Russian Sign Language; sign language syntax. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2019
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Published in WP BRP Series: Linguistics / LNG, December 2019, pages 1-27

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