R-loci and Distributivity: Insights from Czech Sign Language

Mojmír  Dočekal; Hana  Strachoňová

R-loci and Distributivity: Insights from Czech Sign Language

Publication date: 2022

Studies in Polish Linguistics, Volume 17 (2022), Vol. 17, Issue 1, pp. 1 - 29

https://doi.org/10.4467/23005920SPL.22.001.15758

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R-loci and Distributivity: Insights from Czech Sign Language

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This article describes a distributivity pattern in Czech Sign Language. The pattern is signed via a reduplication at the R-loci and resembles the distributivity behavior of the binominal each that is known in spoken languages. Nevertheless, there are important differences between the sign language reduplication and the spoken language distributivity that is seen in the binominal each; the most significant concerns the range of readings available for the sign language reduplication. We describe the data we gathered, and then formalize them in the Plural Compositional Discourse Representation Theory. The formal framework allows us to analyze the data and explain certain questions which arise from them.

Niniejszy artykuł omawia konstrukcję o interpretacji dystrybutywnej w czeskim języku migowym. Wyraża się ją za pomocą reduplikacji z wykorzystaniem punktów referencjalnych w przestrzeni migowej i przypomina ona dystrybutywne znaczenie dwurzeczownikowego użycia kwantyfikatora każdy, znane z języków mówionych. Niemniej istnieją znaczące różnice pomiędzy reduplikacją w języku migowym a dystrybutywnością w języku mówionym obserwowaną w przypadku tego kwantyfikatora. Najistotniejsza z nich dotyczy zakresu interpretacyjnego reduplikacji w języku migowym. Autorzy omawiają zebrane dane językowe, a następnie dokonują ich opisu formalnego w ramach mnogościowej kompozycyjnej teorii reprezentacji dyskursu (Plural Compositional Discourse Representation Theory, PCDRT). Stanowi to podstawę dla analizy materiału oraz odpowiedzi na wynikające z niego pytania.

Keywords

Czech Sign Language, distributivity, reduplication, R-loci, PCDRT, individual and occasional interpretation

czeski język migowy, dystrybutywność, reduplikacja, lokalizacje referencyjne, PCDRT, interpretacja jednostkowa i okazjonalna

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Information: Studies in Polish Linguistics, Volume 17 (2022), Vol. 17, Issue 1, pp. 1 - 29

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/23005920SPL.22.001.15758

Article type: Original article

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R-loci and Distributivity: Insights from Czech Sign Language

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Mojmír Dočekal

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9993-4756

Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Arna Nováka 1/1, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Hana Strachoňová

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6897-9409

Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Arna Nováka 1/1, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Published at: 2022

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