Numeral Incorporation as Grammaticalization? A Corpus Study on German Sign Language (DGS)
Numeral incorporation describes the merging of a numeral sign with a lexical sign to create a single sign with a compositional meaning, e.g., “three weeks.” As a phenomenon of simultaneous morphology, numeral incorporation is unique to sign languages. While researchers disagree on the exact morpholo...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2023-06-01
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| Series: | Languages |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/2/153 |