A cross-modality perspective on verb agreement
A cross-modality perspective on verb agreement
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DOI：
10.1023/a:1015041113514
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发表时间：
2002-05-01
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1.3
通讯作者：
Meir, I
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作者：
Meir, I
手语中的动词一致性（这里以以色列手语（Israeli Sign Language，ISL）为例）似乎与口语有很大不同，因为它似乎是以主题为导向的，并且只在语言中的动词子集上实现形态。这些属性都提出了类型学和理论上的挑战，因为协议通常被认为是一种结构关系，实现形态上的动词元素的屈折词缀。这些挑战是解决这里通过应用一个特定的成分分析（沿着Jackendoff 1990年的路线）的类动词，在ISL协议的变化。这一分析使我们能够捕捉和解释的相似性，以及签署和口头语言的协议系统之间的差异。它认为，协议基本上是一种结构关系的语言在这两个模态。手语动词一致性的独特性归因于同意成分的差异：口语中的动词和助动词与手语中的空间谓词。这些结论对于把握情态和语言结构之间的相互作用以及对词汇结构的限制都具有重要的理论意义。
Verb agreement in sign languages (illustrated here by Israeli Sign Language, ISL) seems to differ greatly from that of spoken languages, as it seems to be thematically oriented and is realized morphologically only on a subset of verbs in the language. These properties present both typological and theoretical challenges, since agreement is generally regarded as a structural relation, realized morphologically as inflectional affixes on the verbal element. These challenges are addressed here by applying a particular componential analysis (along the lines of Jackendoff 1990) to the class of verbs which inflect for agreement in ISL. This analysis enables us to capture and explain the similarities as well as differences between the agreement systems of signed and spoken languages. It argues that agreement is basically a structural relation in languages in both modalities. The unique properties of sign language verb agreement are attributed to the difference in the agreeing element: verbs and auxiliaries in spoken languages vs. a spatial predicate in sign languages. These conclusions have some significant theoretical implications, both for capturing aspects of the interaction between modality and the structure of language, and for imposing restrictions on the structure of the lexicon.