Question-answer pairs in Russian Sign Language: a corpus study
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| Publication date | 2021 |
| Journal | FEAST : Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory |
| Volume | Issue number | 4 |
| Pages (from-to) | 101-112 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
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We describe basic morphosyntactic and semantic properties of question-answer pairs(QAPs) collected from the online corpus of Russian Sign Language (RSL). We identified two classes of QAPs: classical and discourse QAPs, which are different in the semantic relation between the question and answer parts. We discovered that non-manual marking and word order in both types of QAPs are different from other constructions involving wh-signs, namely regular questions and free relative clauses. Guided by the similarity between non-manual marking of QAPs and role shift marking, we hypothesize on a possible grammaticalization process connecting the two constructions.
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| Document type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.31009/FEAST.i4.08 |
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