Formational and functional characteristics of pointing signs in a corpus of Auslan (Australian sign language): are the data sufficient to posit a grammatical class of 'pronouns' in Auslan?
Formational and functional characteristics of pointing signs in a corpus of Auslan (Australian sign language): are the data sufficient to posit a grammatical class of 'pronouns' in Auslan?
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10.1515/cllt-2013-0012
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2013-01-01
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1.6
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Johnston, Trevor
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Johnston, Trevor
有观点认为，手语中的指称性指向符号是语法类代词的语言符号，而不是指向手势。为了支持SL中代词的存在，基于非常有限的数据集，已经对指向符号的用法和形式进行了分类性质的声明。在本文中，我提出的数据表明，许多这些索赔也不密切配合相关的功能和结构特征的指向标志从语料库的澳大利亚SL（Auslan），也没有，潜在的，与其他SL的数据，或者他们似乎是同样真实的指示（索引）手势点在共同语音手势由非签名。我不仅同意这些符号实际上是语言和手势元素的混合物，但也反对分析SL的参考点作为语法类代词的成员。
It has been argued that referential pointing signs in signed languages (SLs) are linguistic signs of the grammatical class pronoun rather than pointing gestures. In support of the existence of pronouns in SLs, claims of a categorical nature have been made of the usage and form of pointing signs that are based on very limited datasets. In this paper I present data to show that many of these claims also do not align closely with relevant functional and formational characteristics of pointing signs from a corpus of Australian SL (Auslan) nor, potentially, with data from other SLs; or they appear to be equally true of the deictic (indexical) gestural points made in co-speech gesture by non-signers. I not only concur with arguments that these signs are actually blends of linguistic and gestural elements but also argue against analysing SL referential points as members of the grammatical class pronoun.