LgCZJ23 Morphology of Sign Language

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 2 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lucia Vlášková (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lucia Vlášková
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Aneta Fidrichová
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 6/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The goal of the course is to make the students familiar with the basic terminology and selected problems of morphology and morphosyntax of sign languages.
Learning outcomes
Students see the units of Czech sign language as complex structures. They understand the difference between a phoneme and a morpheme and they realize the grammatic functions of singular morphemes in CSL. Little by little, they learn to understand the grammar of a language as a system with rules and from this perspective, they are able to compare oral-acoustic languages (such as Czech) and visual-motoric (such as CSL).
Syllabus
  • 1. simultaneity and sequence; morphological type of sign languages 2. derivation, compounding 3. word and word classes 4. verb agreement, agreement in space 5. negation 6. pluralization 7. incorporation and classification
Literature
    required literature
  • The linguistics of sign languages : an introduction. Edited by Anne Baker - Beppie van den Bogaerde - Roland Pfau - Trude Schermer. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016, xv, 378. ISBN 9789027212306. info
    not specified
  • Kimmelman, V. & C. Börstell (to appear). Word classes in sign languages. In E. van Lier (ed.) Oxford Handbook ofWord Classes. Oxford University Press.
  • Zeshan, U. (2003). Towards a notion of ‘word’ in sign languages. In R. Dixon & A. Aikhenvald (Eds.), Word: A Cross-linguistic Typology (pp. 153-179). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Oomen, Marloes A. and R. Pfau. “Signing not (or not): A typological perspective on standard negation in Sign Language of the Netherlands.” Linguistic Typology 21 (2017): 1 - 51.
  • Schlenker, P., Lamberton, J. Iconic plurality. Linguist and Philos 42, 45–108 (2019).
  • Steinbach, Markus. "6. Plurality: " In Sign Language: An International Handbook edited by Roland Pfau, Markus Steinbach and Bencie Woll, 112-136. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2012.
  • Aronoff, M., Mark Irit Wendy Meir and Mark Irit Wendy Sandler. “The Paradox of Sign Language Morphology.” Language 81 (2005): 301 - 344.
  • Liddell, S.K., Johnson, R.E. American Sign Language compound formation processes, lexicalization, and phonological remnants. Nat Lang Linguist Theory 4, 445–513 (1986).
  • Santoro, Mirko. „Compounds in sign languages : the case of Italian and French Sign Language“. Electronic Thesis or Dissertation, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018.
  • Branchini, Chiara. Argument marking in sign language: the role of hand selection. Talk at FEAST 2020; https://sites.google.com/site/feastconference/feast-2020-online/program/talks/argument-marking-in-sign-language-the-role-of-hand-selection
  • Dachkovsky, Svetlana. “From a demonstrative to a relative clause marker: Grammaticalization of pointing signs in Israeli Sign Language.” Sign Language & Linguistics 23 (2020): 142-170.
  • Kwok, Lily, S. Berk and D. Lillo-Martin. “Person vs. locative agreement: Evidence from late learners and language emergence.” Sign Language & Linguistics 23 (2020): 17-37.
  • Kimmelman, V. (2018). Reduplication and repetition in Russian Sign Language. R. Finkbeiner, U. Freywald (eds.), Exact Repetition in Grammar and Discourse (pp. 91–109). Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • Johnston, Trevor. "Nouns and Verbs in Australian Sign Language: An Open and Shut Case?" Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 6, no. 4 (2001): 235-57.
Teaching methods
- seminar in Czech - a theoretical explanation, analysis of examples, discussion
Assessment methods
- preparation for the lessons - presentation in class - final test
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
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