Sentential negation in South African Sign Language: A case study
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| Title | Sentential negation in South African Sign Language: A case study Sinsontkenning in Suid-Afrikaanse Gebaretaal: ’n Gevallestudie | |
| Creator | de Barros, Courtney Siebörger, Ian | |
| Description | As with other sign languages, South African Sign Language (SASL) expresses negation using both manual and non-manual features. In this case study, naturalistic data provided by two native signers of SASL are analysed to show the syntactic relationship between these two sets of features. Using a Principles and Parameters approach and Government and Binding Theory, we investigate the syntactic scope of negation in our SASL data. We observe that side-to-side headshake, as a non-manual feature, appears to be the chief clausal negator in SASL, with a clause-final manual negative particle, NOT, playing a secondary role. We describe the negative headshake as a featural affix which is base-generated in the head of NegP and triggers V-to-Neg raising. The negative particle NOT appears to be base-generated in the Specifier of NegP. Suggestions for further syntactic research on SASL are provided. Soos ander gebaretale, maak Suid-Afrikaanse Gebaretaal (SAGT) gebruik van beide die hande en ander dele van die liggaam om ontkenning uit te druk. In hierdie gevallestudie word naturalistiese data voorsien deur twee moedertaal-gebruikers van SAGT geanaliseer om die sintaktiese verhouding tussen hierdie twee wyses van ontkenning te toon. Ons gebruik ’n Principles and Parameters-benadering en Government and Binding Theory om die sintaksiese omvang van ontkenning in ons SAGTdata te ondersoek. Uit ons waarneming blyk dat ’n skud van die kop van kant tot kant skynbaar die vernaamste merker van ontkenning in ‘n SAGT-sin uitmaak. ’n Negatiewe deeltjie wat met die hande gemaak word aan die einde van die sin, NIE, speel ’n sekondêre rol. Ons beskryf die negatiewe kopskud as ’n kenmerk-draende voegsel wat onderliggend in die hoof van NegP gegenereer word en V-na-Neg-verhoging inisieer. Die negatiewe deeltjie NIE lyk asof dit onderliggend in die Spesifiseerder van NegP gegenereer word. Voorstelle vir verdere sinktaktiese ondersoek van SAGT word ten slotte gemaak. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2016-11-28 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/lit.v37i2.1285 | |
| Source | Literator; Vol 37, No 2 (2016); 13 pages Literator; Vol 37, No 2 (2016); 13 pages 2219-8237 0258-2279 | |
| Language | eng | |
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