Motion verbs in French Sign Language  : contribution to thinking about signed languages verb's classes

Risler, Annie

Document type :

Autre communication scientifique (congrès sans actes - poster - séminaire...): Communication dans un congrès avec actes

Title :

Motion verbs in French Sign Language : contribution to thinking about signed languages verb's classes

Author(s) :

Risler, Annie [Auteur]

Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]

Conference title :

International Congress of Linguists ICL 20

City :

Cape Town

Country :

Afrique du Sud

Start date of the conference :

2018-07-02

English keyword(s) :

Sign language linguistics
verb classes

English abstract : [en]

This study examines the use of spatial agreement in verbs of motion in French Sign Language. Our data come from signers recorded in the context of simulated dialogical interactions (adaptation of Ricca 1993). These situations ...
Show more >This study examines the use of spatial agreement in verbs of motion in French Sign Language. Our data come from signers recorded in the context of simulated dialogical interactions (adaptation of Ricca 1993). These situations favor the use of deictic verbs of motion (such as 'to go', 'to arrive', 'to come'). It appears that in FSL, in this context, signers expressing motion events widely use lexical verb-phrases, rather than classifier predicates. According to the spatial construction, verbs of motion are divided into two classes.The first class consists of lexical verbs ('to go', 'to arrive'...). In any case, these verbs agree with respect to the signer's body as subject, whoever it is. Their use always needs to adopt an internal perspective (by shifting personal references associated with the signer's body), from the place of the subject.The second class consists of neutral verbs of motion, kind of indexical pointing gestures ('from here to there', 'toward there'), as well as of classifier predicates ('from here to there in this posture' , 'toward there in this posture'). These verbs depict spatial relations in a topological space, like verbs of localisation or posture do. The perspective is not that of the subject, but that of the enunciator. This study stimulates the discussion opened by Meir and al. (2007) with the 'body as subject' pattern, because we investigate the relation between verb agreement and perspective, as discussed by Janzen et al. (2016). In FSL, all the verbs of action, perception or feeling for animates are body-anchored signs. Role-shifts determine internal perspectives, so that the movement of these verbs is oriented from the 'body as subject' (Risler 2016). This is also the case for lexical verbs of motion. Only topological operators, as indexical or classifier constructions, behave differently.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163

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