Resumen de Approche Sémiologique des langues dessignes et principe de la "glose": la question de l'annotation infra-unités gestuelles
Marie Anne Sallandre, Brigitte García
First, we present the types of discourse units most commonly used for the linguistic description ofsign languages (beyond specific terminologies): lexical signs, classifier constructions and role shifts in particular.Then, after having briefly outlined our theoretical approach, theSemiological approach, we report on the typesof units proposed by this approach, namely, in addition to pointing units and fingerspellling units, these twomain types, lexical units andtransfer units. This finally allows us to explain, from detailed examples, the typesof difficulties we encounter in our ELAN annotations, which are linked in particular to the basic principle of agloss-based notation. These examples, representative of our French Sign Language (LSF) corpora, are problematicbecause of the interweaving of unit types, their multilinearity and the complexity of discursive constructions.These difficulties attest to the need for a means of annotating relevant elements at an infra-unit level
