Plural marking in Czech Sign Language

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Plural marking in Czech Sign Language

STRACHOŇOVÁ, Hana, Pavel CAHA, Ivana KUPČÍKOVÁ and Mirka TYLOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Plural marking in Czech Sign Language

Authors

STRACHOŇOVÁ, Hana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Pavel CAHA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Ivana KUPČÍKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Mirka TYLOVÁ (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

II Meeting on Morphosyntax of Portuguese Sign Language and other sign languages, 08-09/02/2018, Porto, 2018

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

Portugal

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/18:00102292

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

sign language; Czech sign language; plural; coordination; reduplication

Abstract

V originále

The paper discusses sign repetition as a strategy for plural marking in the Czech Sign Language (CSL), where \repetition" is to be understood as a theory neutral term for what is sometimes called reduplication (Steinbach 2012). Sign repetition is compared to plural marking strategies in spoken language, and a new analysis of plural marking is suggested. Sign repetition as plural marking. In CSL, several plural marking strategies are employed, including no marking of plurality, the use of classi_ers, and the repetition of a sign (Vojtechovsky 2013). As pointed out in Steinbach (2012), there are phonological restrictions on which signs may be repeated and which not, and these restrictions apply in the CSL as well. Our focus here is limited in scope to the signs that may be repeated in order to express plurality. For such nouns, the pattern is such that the number of repetitions broadly determines the number of referents (cf. Vojtechovsky 2013). There is a difference between discreet non-reduced signing, leading to an exact interpretation, or the repetition of the sign with shorter, reduced movements, leading to plural interpretation. If correct, our analysis entails that languages may in fact use a variety of strategies to arrive at a plural denotation. In the particular case of CSL, the result is that an apparently similar morphosyntactic process (sign repetition) creates a seeming of similarity to a spoken language pluralization, where in fact the strategies are quite different.

Links

CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/16_015/0002418, interní kód MU

Name: Masarykova univerzita 4.0 (Acronym: MUNI 4.0)

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Priority axis 2: Development of universities and human resources for research and development

Citovat

STRACHOŇOVÁ, Hana, Pavel CAHA, Ivana KUPČÍKOVÁ and Mirka TYLOVÁ. Plural marking in Czech Sign Language. In II Meeting on Morphosyntax of Portuguese Sign Language and other sign languages, 08-09/02/2018, Porto. 2018.

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STRACHOŇOVÁ, Hana, Pavel CAHA, Ivana KUPČÍKOVÁ and Mirka TYLOVÁ. Plural marking in Czech Sign Language. In \textit{II Meeting on Morphosyntax of Portuguese Sign Language and other sign languages, 08-09/02/2018, Porto}. 2018.

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