Polar interrogatives in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): a comprehensive grammatical analysis
This thesis provides a morphosyntactic description of polar questions and a pragmatic analysis of biased questions in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). Polar questions in LSC are obligatorily marked with a specific combination of non-manual marking features and optionally marked with a question particle....
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| Format: | doctoral thesis |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2021 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repository: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/670760 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/670760 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Catalan Sign Language (LSC) Lengua de signos catalana (LSC) Llengua de signes catalana (LSC) 81 |
| Summary: | This thesis provides a morphosyntactic description of polar questions and a pragmatic analysis of biased questions in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). Polar questions in LSC are obligatorily marked with a specific combination of non-manual marking features and optionally marked with a question particle. Given that, at least, the most prominent feature, eyebrow position, does not remain constant, LSC displays different combinations of non-manuals to mark this structure. Empirical evidence supports an analysis in which each combination of non-manuals conveys a different bias and a novel feature-based description system explains and predicts those. Therefore, each combination of non-manuals, as well as the appearance of the question particle, is shown to not only mark sentence type but also to encode specific pragmatic meanings. |
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