In this paper, we present data that shed light on the parts of speech system of Russian Sign Language (RSL), in particular, the noun-verb distinction. An experimental study revealed that in RSL, specific phonological differences distinguish between nouns and verbs; these include differences in movement, handshape, orientation, location, and mouthing. The attested differences, which are subject to variation among the signers, can co-occur with each other. The patterns we found cannot be accounted for by models that have previously been proposed for other sign languages (e.g. American Sign Language and Australian Sign Language). We argue that these differences may result from the higher iconicity of verbs and the higher economy of nouns.
2023. Morphology in Sign Languages. In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology, ► pp. 1 ff.
Bauer, Anastasia & Masha Kyuseva
2022. New Insights Into Mouthings: Evidence From a Corpus-Based Study of Russian Sign Language. Frontiers in Psychology 12
Kagirov, I. A. & D. A. Ryumin
2022. Russian Sign Language Database for Clinical Use: Data and Annotation Peculiarities. NSU Vestnik. Series: Linguistics and Intercultural Communication 20:3 ► pp. 90 ff.
Motamedi, Yasamin, Kathryn Montemurro, Natasha Abner, Molly Flaherty, Simon Kirby & Susan Goldin-Meadow
2022. The Seeds of the Noun–Verb Distinction in the Manual Modality: Improvisation and Interaction in the Emergence of Grammatical Categories. Languages 7:2 ► pp. 95 ff.
Pyers, Jennie E. & Karen Emmorey
2022. The iconic motivation for the morphophonological distinction between noun–verb pairs in American Sign Language does not reflect common human construals of objects and actions. Language and Cognition 14:4 ► pp. 622 ff.
Ribera-Llonc, Eulàlia, M. Teresa Espinal & Josep Quer
2021. Manual and Spoken Cues in French Sign Language’s Lexical Access: Evidence From Mouthing in a Sign-Picture Priming Paradigm. Frontiers in Psychology 12
Sehyr, Zed Sevcikova & Karen Emmorey
2021. The effects of multiple linguistic variables on picture naming in American Sign Language. Behavior Research Methods 54:5 ► pp. 2502 ff.
Börstell, Carl
2019. Differential object marking in sign languages. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 4:1
Wu, Suwei
2019. The Tool Noun and Tool Verb Alternation in Gesture. Multimodal Communication 8:2
Hou, Lynn & Richard P. Meier
2018. The morphology of first-person object forms of directional verbs in ASL. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 3:1
Kimmelman, Vadim
2018. Basic argument structure in Russian Sign Language. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 3:1
Abner, Natasha
2017. What You See Is What You Get.Get: Surface Transparency and Ambiguity of Nominalizing Reduplication in American Sign Language. Syntax 20:4 ► pp. 317 ff.
Abner, Natasha
2017. Syntactic Categorization in Sign Languages * *I am extremely indebted to all of the individuals who have shared their language and their research with me and with the scientific community. I also thank Carlo Geraci and the editors for valuable feedback and suggestions. Any remaining errors are my own.. In Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science, ► pp. 549 ff.
Anne Baker, Beppie van den Bogaerde, Roland Pfau & Trude Schermer
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