Partitivity and space: Evidence from spoken and sign languages
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | In this work, we investigate partitivity marking in spoken and sign languages, focusing on the locative and ablative strategies. We aim to extend the typology of partitive constructions by including evidence from sign languages and to explore the semantic component allowing locative and ablative markers to serve as both spatial and partitivity expressions. A new ablative construction was found in Czech Sign Language using the sign FROM^IX-a, which differs from the high vs. low position strategy found in other sign languages. The sign language data further indicate the tight semantic relationship between the spatial use of locative and directional expressions and their use as partitive markers. |
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