To be specified published in:
Impersonal human reference in Sign LanguagesEdited by Gemma Barberà and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
[Sign Language & Linguistics 21:2] 2018
► pp. 379–389
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Strong pronominals in ASL and LSF?
Theories of pronominal strength (e.g., Cardinaletti & Starke 1999) lead one to expect that sign language, just like spoken language, can have morphologically distinct strong pronominals. We suggest that American Sign Language (ASL) and French Sign Language (LSF) might have such pronominals, characterized here by the fact that they may associate with only even in the absence of prosodically marked focus.
Keywords: sign language, strong pronouns, pointing, focus
Published online: 22 March 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00025.sch
https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00025.sch
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Bertone, Carmela & Anna Cardinaletti
Cardinaletti, Anna & Michael Starke
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Schlenker, Philippe, Valentina Aristodemo, Ludovic Ducasse, Jonathan Lamberton & Mirko Santoro