The relationship between verbal form and event structure in sign languages

Whether predicates describe events as inherently bounded (telic) or unbounded (atelic) is usually understood to be an emergent property that depends on several factors; few, if any, spoken languages have dedicated morphology to mark the distinction. It is thus surprising that sign languages have bee...

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Main Authors: Kathryn Davidson, Annemarie Kocab, Andrea D. Sims, Laura Wagner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2019-11-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/924