When BEAT is ‘exceed’: verbal comparison in American Sign Language
Año:
2018
Editorial:
Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory, Vol. 1 pp. 59-69
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Lingüística » Lingüística de otras Lenguas de Signos
Detalles
One strategy for expressing comparison in American Sign Language is the verbal predicate BEAT, which parallels exceeds comparatives documented in spoken languages but heretofore not in sign languages. It expresses non-identity of two referents on a graded scale with a transitive verb as a morpho-syntactic marker. The standard of comparison serves as object and the comparee as subject. Clausal arguments aremallowed as standards and comparees. In documenting the BEATcomparative, we expand typological understanding of comparatives and of sign languages, highlighting syntactic and semantic properties of BEAT comparatives relative to other comparison expressions.