Semantics of distributivity in Czech Sign Language (Distributivity workshop)

STRACHOŇOVÁ, Hana and Mojmír DOČEKAL. Semantics of distributivity in Czech Sign Language (Distributivity workshop). In Journées Co-distributivité 2018, 22-23 February 2018, Paris. 2018.

Basic information

Original name

Semantics of distributivity in Czech Sign Language (Distributivity workshop)

Authors

STRACHOŇOVÁ, Hana (203 Czech Republic) and Mojmír DOČEKAL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Journées Co-distributivité 2018, 22-23 February 2018, Paris, 2018

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

France

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/18:00102512

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

sign language; czech sign language; distributivity; reduplication

Tags

rivok

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Abstract

V originále

Various types of distance distributive (DD) items across natural languages received attention in recent linguistic works. As for Sign Languages (SL), the DD research is presented (among other topics) in Quer (2012), Kimmelman (2015), Kimmelman (2017) & Kuhn (2017) a.o. Following this work we focus on a specific type of reduplication in SL (reduplication on R-loci) which is claimed to be a marker of distributive quantification (i.e. by Kimmelman 2015): a ”distributive reduplication” from now on. By bringing new data from Czech Sign Language(CSL) we propose a new compositional semantics for DD structures. The analysis shows that the distributive reduplication in CSL can be understood as a realization of the most general distributivity operator (Schwarzschild’s Part with the cover domain), like Champolion’s (2012) D but being anaphoric to the distributive key. The multiple DD marking is not a syntactic agreement, as proposed in some previous approaches but non-scopal anaphoric D operator. Both individual and occasional readings were attested. We suggest that the interpretation of both reduplications leads to the occasional reading; the vacuous/redundant distributivity over the same theta-role results in an individual distributive reading.

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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