Question-answer pairs in Russian Sign Language: a corpus study

• Autores: Evgeniia Khristoforova, Vadim Kimmelman
• Localización: FEAST: proceedings of the Formal and Experimental Advances in sign language Theory, ISSN-e 2565-1781, vol. 4, 2021, págs. 101-112
• Idioma: inglés
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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 identifiedtwo classes of QAPs: classical and discourse QAPs, which are different in the semantic re-lation between the question and answer parts. We discovered that non-manual markingand word order in both types of QAPs are different from other constructions involvingwh-signs, namely regular questions and free relative clauses. Guided by the similaritybetween non-manual marking of QAPs and role shift marking, we hypothesize on a pos-sible grammaticalization process connecting the two constructions