Negation in Singapore sign language
This thesis describes strategies of negation employed by Singapore Sign Language (SgSL), a language that has been historically influenced by vastly differing sign languages. These languages of influence are American Sign Language (ASL), a sign language that prefers non-manual negation strategies, an...
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| author | Ang, Mary Shu Yi |
| author2 | Frantisek Kratochvil |
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| description | This thesis describes strategies of negation employed by Singapore Sign Language (SgSL), a language that has been historically influenced by vastly differing sign languages. These languages of influence are American Sign Language (ASL), a sign language that prefers non-manual negation strategies, and Shanghai Sign Language (SSL), which prefers manual negation strategies. With lacking descriptions of SSL, the present study looks to Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL), a language related to SSL through historic relations (Sze, Lo, Lo & Chu, 2013). Negation is of interest to SgSL as negation grammaticalizes early in language emergence (Sandler, Meir, Padden & Aronoff, 2005). Thirteen manual negative forms are described in total. Traces of both ASL and SSL are noticeable in these forms, of which, seven forms bear similarities to ASL negators. Therefore, reflecting heavier lexical borrowing from ASL. Furthermore, SgSL uses morphological negation strategies common to East Asian sign languages (Zeshan, 2004) and likewise prefers manual negative strategies (Zeshan, 2006). Despite few manual negative markers of SSL origin, SgSL prefers manual dominant strategies in negation, like its relative sign language, HKSL (Zeshan, 2006). Patterns of negative handshapes and movements were also present in the data. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/699402021-12-20T03:49:15Z Negation in Singapore sign language Ang, Mary Shu Yi Frantisek Kratochvil School of Humanities and Social Sciences Singapore Association for the Deaf DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sign language This thesis describes strategies of negation employed by Singapore Sign Language (SgSL), a language that has been historically influenced by vastly differing sign languages. These languages of influence are American Sign Language (ASL), a sign language that prefers non-manual negation strategies, and Shanghai Sign Language (SSL), which prefers manual negation strategies. With lacking descriptions of SSL, the present study looks to Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL), a language related to SSL through historic relations (Sze, Lo, Lo & Chu, 2013). Negation is of interest to SgSL as negation grammaticalizes early in language emergence (Sandler, Meir, Padden & Aronoff, 2005). Thirteen manual negative forms are described in total. Traces of both ASL and SSL are noticeable in these forms, of which, seven forms bear similarities to ASL negators. Therefore, reflecting heavier lexical borrowing from ASL. Furthermore, SgSL uses morphological negation strategies common to East Asian sign languages (Zeshan, 2004) and likewise prefers manual negative strategies (Zeshan, 2006). Despite few manual negative markers of SSL origin, SgSL prefers manual dominant strategies in negation, like its relative sign language, HKSL (Zeshan, 2006). Patterns of negative handshapes and movements were also present in the data. Master of Arts (HSS) 2017-04-04T11:55:52Z 2017-04-04T11:55:52Z 2017 Thesis Ang, M. S. Y. (2017). Negation in Singapore sign language. Master's thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69940 10.32657/10356/69940 en 142 p. application/pdf |
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| title_short | Negation in Singapore sign language |
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