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Influence Of Predicate Sense On Word Order In Sign Languages: Intensional And Extensional Verbs
We present evidence for the influence of semantics on the order of subject, object, and verb in Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) sentences. While some have argued for a prevailing pattern of SVO in Libras, we find a strong tendency for this order in sentences that do not presuppose the existence of the verb’s object, but not in sentences that do, which instead favor SOV. These findings are coherent with those of a recent study on gesture. We argue that the variable influence of the relevant predicates is particularly salient in sign languages, due to the iconic nature of the visual modality
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Back to back(wards) and moving on: on agreement, auxiliaries and verb classes in sign languages
UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Back to back(wards) and moving on: on agreement, auxiliaries and verb classes in sign languages Back to back(wards) and moving on: on agreement, auxiliaries and verb classes in sign languages
Back to back(wards) and moving on: on agreement, auxiliaries and verb classes in sign languages
Signbank da Libras. Banco de Señas de Libras
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"Todo" em contextos coletivos e distributivos The brazilian portuguese quantifier "Todo" in distributive and in collective contexts
"Todo" pode tomar um NP (nome nu) ou uma descrição definida (DP) plural ou singular como argumento nominal. Esse quantificador opera sobre partes de sua restrição e de seu escopo nuclear e relaciona um ao outro. Uma sentença com "todo" é agramatical se um de seus argumentos não pode ser distribuído; predicados coletivos sem subeventos e com sujeitos que não apresentam são um exemplo. Predicados com Todo+NP não têm leitura coletiva porque um NP não denota uma entidade mas um predicado, e não pode remeter a um grupo em ação coletiva.<br>"Todo" may take a Noun Phrase, a singular or a plural Determiner Phrase as its argument. "Todo" quantifies over parts of its restriction and its nuclear scope and it relates these two 'parts'. A sentence with "todo" will be ungrammatical if either the nominal argument or the predicate is not distributable. That is the case for collective predicates whitout sub-events wich nominal subject cannot be partitioned. Todo+NP, on the other hand, never gets a collective reading because the NP is a predicate and does not denote an entity that could be involved in a collective action