Martje Hansen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Martje Hansen plays a role.
Articles
2015 Researching linguistic features of text genres in a DGS corpus: The case of finger loci Sign Language & Linguistics 18:1, pp. 1–40 | Article
In this article, we investigate the referential and textual functions of finger loci, that is, the pointing towards one or more fingers of the weak hand in signed discourse. The first part of the article deals with the theoretical discussion about referentiality and the related notions of… read more
2007 Warum braucht die Deutsche Gebärdensprache kein Passiv? Verfahren der Markierung semantischer Rollen in der DGS: [Why can German Sign Language (DGS) do without a passive construction? Ways of marking semantic roles in DGS] Identifying sentences in signed languages, Crasborn, Onno A. (ed.), pp. 213–222 | Review
2007 Matching propositional content and formal markers: Sentence boundaries in a DGS text Identifying sentences in signed languages, Crasborn, Onno A. (ed.), pp. 145–175 | Article
The question of sentence boundaries in sign language texts is approached by way of a case study in this paper. A short sample German Sign Language (DGS) text is segmented into elementary units and subjected to a functional analysis that identifies topics, predications, adjuncts and conjuncts as… read more