Negation in Turkish Sign Language the syntax of nonmanual markers
Sign Language and Linguistics (Online), cilt.14, sa.1, ss.49-75, 2011 (Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Özet
- Cilt numarası: 14 Sayı: 1
- Basım Tarihi: 2011
- Doi Numarası: 10.1075/sll.14.1.04gok
- Dergi Adı: Sign Language and Linguistics (Online)
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.49-75
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Head tilt, Negation, Spreading, Syntax, Turkish Sign Language (TİD)
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır
Özet
This paper presents a detailed description of manual and nonmanual markers (NMMs) in negative sentences in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). It has been argued that TİD has a manual dominant pattern for negation with a backward head tilt being the major NMM in negative sentences. By contrast, in this paper I argue that, when it comes to negation, TİD is not a strictly manual dominant language. I will consider spreading of NMMs such as headshake, brow-lowering, and brow-raising and argue that these spreading NMMs play a syntactic role in TİD negative sentences. They mark the syntactic domain of negation, either through c-command, a spec-head-relation or both. In addition, I offer a generative analysis of the syntax of negation in TİD based on the syntactic background provided for TİD and the distributional patterns of NMMs. © John Benjamins Publishing Company.