V-to-Neg raising and negative concord in three sign languages

Temas

Detalles

The realization of negation has been described for quite a number of sign languages. With very few exceptions, however, none of the available studies tries to give a syntactic account for the data under investigation. Across sign languages, striking similarities are found with respect to the realization of negation: in all the SLs studied so far, a manual Neg element (a Neg sign) is combined with a non-manual marking (a head movement), and in most of them, the manual Neg sign is optional, i.e. the non-manual alone is sufficient to negate a proposition.

Ubicación