Two agreement markers in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS)
Julia Krebs | Research group Neurobiology of Language, Department of Linguistics, University of Salzburg | Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCNS), University of Salzburg
Ronnie B. Wilbur | Linguistics Program, and Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University
Dietmar Roehm | Research group Neurobiology of Language, Department of Linguistics, University of Salzburg | Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCNS), University of Salzburg
For many of the sign languages studied to date, different types of agreement markers have been described which express agreement in transitive constructions involving non-inflecting (plain) verbs and sometimes even inflected agreement verbs. Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS) belongs to the group of sign languages employing two different agreement markers (agrm-bc/agrm-mf), which will be described in this paper. In an online questionnaire, we focused on two questions: (i) whether both forms of agreement markers are rated as equally acceptable by Deaf ÖGS-signers and hearing native signers, and (ii) whether there is a preferred syntactic position (pre- vs. postverbal) for these markers. Data analysis confirmed that both agreement markers are accepted by ÖGS-signers and that both agreement markers are slightly preferred in preverbal position. Further, possible origins of both agreement markers are discussed.
Keywords: agreement, agreement markers, word order, Austrian Sign Language, questionnaire
Article outline
- 1.Agreement in sign languages
- 1.1Spatial establishment of arguments
- 1.2Spatial agreement by movement and facing
- 1.3Verb typology in sign languages
- 1.4Person Agreement Marker (pam) in German Sign Language
- 2.Two agreement markers in ÖGS
- 2.1 agrm-bc
- 2.2 agrm-mf
- 3.Methodology
- 3.1Procedure
- 3.2Materials and design
- 3.3Participants
- 3.4Data analysis
- 4.Results and discussion
- 4.1Distribution of the ÖGS agreement markers
- 4.2Cross-linguistic comparison
- 4.3Speculations on the grammaticalization of ÖGS agreement markers
- 5.Conclusions and questions for further research
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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Published online: 06 November 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.20.1.02kre
https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.20.1.02kre
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