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Petronio, Karen M. "Clause structure in American sign language /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8418.

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Börstell, Carl. "Object marking in the signed modality : Verbal and nominal strategies in Swedish Sign Language and other sign languages." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-141669.

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In this dissertation, I investigate various aspects of object marking and how these manifest themselves in the signed modality. The main focus is on Swedish Sign Language (SSL), the national sign language of Sweden, which is the topic of investigation in all five studies. Two of the studies adopt a comparative perspective, including other sign languages as well. The studies comprise a range of data, including corpus data, elicited production, and acceptability judgments, and combine quantitative and qualitative methods in the analyses. The dissertation begins with an overview of the topics of

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Rozelle, Lorna Grace. "The structure of sign language lexicons : inventory and distribution of handshape and location /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8425.

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Börstell, Carl. "Revisiting Reduplication : Toward a description of reduplication in predicative signs in Swedish Sign Language." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-63510.

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This study investigates the use of reduplication with predicative signs in Swedish Sign Language (SSL), and also the related phenomena doubling and displacement. Reduplication in SSL typically expresses plurality of events and/or referents, but may also express intensification, ongoing event or generic activity. There is a distinction between external and internal events with reduplication: external reduplication expresses some event happening over and over at different points in time and/or with different referents, and is associated with a frequentative/habitual reading; internal reduplicati

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Motamedi-Mousavi, Yasamin. "Artificial sign language learning : a method for evolutionary linguistics." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/23504.

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Previous research in evolutionary linguistics has made wide use of artificial language learning (ALL) paradigms, where learners are taught artificial languages in laboratory experiments and are subsequently tested in some way about the language they have learnt. The ALL framework has proved particularly useful in the study of the evolution of language, allowing the manipulation of specific linguistic phenomena that cannot be isolated for study in natural languages. Furthermore, this framework can test the output of individual participants, to uncover the cognitive biases of individual learners

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Kimmelmann, Vadim. "Doubling in RSL and NGT : a pragmatic account0F*." Universität Potsdam, 2013. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2013/6610/.

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In this paper, doubling in Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands is discussed. In both sign languages different constituents (including verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and whole clauses) can be doubled. It is shown that doubling in both languages has common functions and exhibits a similar structure, despite some differences. On this basis, a unified pragmatic explanation for many doubling phenomena on both the discourse and the clause-internal levels is provided, namely that the main function of doubling both in RSL and NGT is foregrounding of the doubled information.

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Barberà, Altimira Gemma. "The meaning of space in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). Reference, specificity and structure in signed discourse." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/81074.

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This thesis concerns the use of sign space in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) at the discourse level. I argue that non-descriptive locations are established in the three spatial planes and I describe the grammatical features contained within them. Spatial locations are morphophonologically marked with an abstract point in space which does not have a specific direction and which is categorically interpreted in the linguistic system. In LSC, the frontal plane is grammatically relevant for specificity marking: lower spatial locations correlate with specificity, whereas upper locations correlate with

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Гнаповська, Людмила Вадимівна, Людмила Вадимовна Гнаповская та Liudmyla Vadymivna Hnapovska. "Языковой знак как элемент социокода человека". Thesis, ТОВ "Друкарський дім "Папірус", 2013. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/59481.

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В докладе проблема социальной природы языка интерпретируется c позиций рассмотрения природы функционирования языкового знака в качестве одного из аспектов социальной деятельности человека. Языковой знак анализируется как некая информационная информационная структура, кодирующая в своей структуре знания, "снятые" с различных концептуальных плоскостей.<br>The paper treats social nature of the language in terms of considering language sign as one of the aspects of person's social activity. Language sign is analysed as an informational structure that contains various knowledge patterns related to

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Yeung, Hiu-lam, and 楊曉霖. "Thought, language origin, and the Saussurean concept of linguistic sign." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B49618015.

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This thesis is an investigation of the relation between language and thought in terms of the Saussurean concept of linguistic sign. However, it is not an empirical study of the relation between language and thought and, therefore, not a study of the Whorfian problem of linguistic relativity, but rather a study of how we understand the nature of language and thought such that we think they are related in a certain way. This thesis is an investigation of the “metaphysical” picture that underlies our understanding of the relation between language and thought. In this study, we believe that how

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Olsson, Dan. "„Davon sagen die Herren kein Wort“ : Zum pädagogischen, grammatischen und dialektologischen Schaffen Max Wilhelm Götzingers (1799–1856)." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-20547.

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The aim of this thesis is to comprehensively describe and evaluate the linguistic work of the German grammarian and teacher Max Wilhelm Götzinger (1799–1856). Götzinger‘s work has been little considered in linguistics and historiography of linguistics apart from some articles mainly on his grammatical theory. The first editions of Anfangsgründe (1825) and Die Deutsche Sprachlehre für Schulen (1827), which up to now have been considered to be lost, could be retrieved and used for this study. Aspects of Götzinger‘s didactics and grammar can still today be re-garded as modern. In many respects hi

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Sarker, Rama. "Structural analysis of Indus script and evaluating basic signs to determine the language of Indus people." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1184.

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Van, der Westhuizen Gillian. "An analysis of learning barriers among deaf learners in the structured workplace component of a learnership programme." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/2725.

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Magister Educationis - MEd<br>In this research paper, guided by Prof Z Groener, I explore the learning barriers experienced by deaf learners in the structured workplace component of a learnership programme. I focus on the learning barriers of deaf learners at work on an Information Technology learnership where the learning environment shapes and are shaped by deaf learners. Twenty deaf learners have entered during 2005 into an Information Technology: Technical Support NQF4 learnership, funded by the Information Systems (IT), Electronics and Telecommunications Technologies Sector Education Trai

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Gregoire, Michaël. "Exploration du signifiant lexical espagnol : Structures, mécanismes, manipulations, potentialités." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040186.

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Ce travail de thèse représente une tentative de rationalisation du lexique espagnol en accordant la priorité au signifiant. Inspiré notamment de Pierre Guiraud, nous y avons établi à la suite de Maurice Molho, Didier Bottineau, Georges Bohas ou Dennis Philps, que les mots peuvent ne référer que par la sollicitation d’une partie de leur forme, partie détectable structurellement. Nous avons pris en considération l’ensemble des capacités qualitatives (phones, formant, idéophones, graphèmes, segments) et quantitatives (duplications, répétitions, inversions, homophonies / homographies) de la forme

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Paugam, Guillaume. "La théorie du langage à la lumière de la philosophie kantienne : vers une linguistique critique." Paris, EHESS, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008EHES0080.

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La thèse explore l'articulation entre pensée et langage en se fondant sur un parallèle systématique avec la philosophie kantienne. Au sein de la théorie linguistique, la conception du signe comme présentation d'un concept permet d'élaborer une définition réfléchissante de la langue, fondée sur la compétence linguistique individuelle, et non plus déterminante. La langue étant susceptible de rendre compte adéquatement de la pensée des individus, l'échange linguistique permet la discussion des informations véhiculées au sein des communautés de locuteurs qu'ils forment, selon les procédures rhétor

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Sharir, Yacov. "Beyond the electronic connection : the technologically manufactured cyber-human and its physical human counterpart in performance : a theory related to convergence identities." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1498.

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This thesis is an investigation of the complex processes and relationships between the physical human performer and the technologically manufactured cyber-human counterpart. I acted as both researcher and the physical human performer, deeply engaged in the moment-to-moment creation of events unfolding within a shared virtual reality environment. As the primary instigator and activator of the cyber-human partner, I maintained a balance between the live and technological performance elements, prioritizing the production of content and meaning. By way of using practice as research, this thesis ar

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Rathmann, Christian Georg. "Event structure in American Sign Language." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/2285.

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"Early phrase structure in Hong Kong sign language: a case study." Thesis, 2009. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b6074760.

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I propose that the HKSL phrase structure has a head-initial vP, but a head-final TP and NegP given the word order and syntactic positions of various functional elements, modals, auxiliary-like elements and negators. Previous discussion on Continuity-Maturation debate largely focuses on the presence/absence of functional projections in child phrase structure. The fact that functional projections are available at an early age in HKSL suggests that the early phrase structure is not just VP (as suggested by the Small Clause Hypothesis). The data show further that syntactic movement like V-to-v mo

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(6410666), Charles Roger Bradley. "Transparency of transitivity in pantomime, sign language." Thesis, 2020.

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This dissertation investigates whether transitivity distinctions are manifest in the phonetics of linguistic and paralinguistic manual actions, namely lexical verbs and classifier constructions in American Sign Language (ASL) and gestures produced by hearing non-signers without speech (i.e., pantomime). A positive result would indicate that grammatical features are (a) transparent and (b) may thus arise from non-linguistic sources, here the visual-praxic domain. Given previous literature, we predict that transitivity is transparent in pantomime and classifier constructions, but opaque in lexic

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van, der Westhuizen Gillian. "An analysis of learning barriers among deaf learners in the structured workplace component of a learnership programme." Thesis, 2009. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_2706_1274654037.

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<p>In this research paper, guided by Prof Z Groener, I explore the learning barriers experienced by deaf learners in the structured workplace component of a learnership programme. I focus on the learning barriers of deaf learners at work on an Information Technology learnership where the learning environment shapes and are shaped by deaf learners. Twenty deaf learners have entered during 2005 into an Information Technology: Technical Support NQF4 learnership, funded by the Information Systems (IT), Electronics and Telecommunications Technologies Sector Education Training Authority (ISETT Seta)

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Bally, Anne-Sophie. "Structure nominale et expression du temps, du mode et de l'aspect en saramaka : analyse synchronique et diachronique." Thèse, 2011. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/4050/1/D2165.pdf.

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La curiosité des linguistes à l'égard des langues créoles repose sur la façon dont celles-ci ont été créées, puisque ce sont des langues que l'on a vu émerger dans des intervalles de temps très brefs et souvent dans des conditions sociohistoriques très particulières, comme l'esclavage dans les Antilles au XVIIe siècle. Les langues créoles sont le fruit d'un contact de plusieurs langues et elles sont par conséquent dans leur structure le reflet des langues en présence lors de ce contact. Dans cette thèse, nous nous intéresserons particulièrement à une de ces langues créoles : le saramaka, une l

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Krásová, Eva. "Émile Benveniste a úloha smyslu." Doctoral thesis, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-357875.

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Eva Krásová: Émile Benveniste and the role of sens My thesis "Émile Benveniste and the role of sens" is a monographic study of the life work of Émile Benveniste (1902-1977) through the role that the concept of meaning (sens) takes in his thought. I adopt the methodology defined by K. Kœrner as "historiography of language sciences", and thus my perspective on Benveniste's work is mainly chronological and developmental. First part of the thesis concentrates on theoretical foundations of Benveniste's thought in the school of Paris (A. Meillet and M. Bréal), Prague (R. Jakobson and V. Skalička) an

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