한국수어 삼항동사 위치일치 분석
An Analysis of Ditransitive Locus Agreement in Korean Sign Language
- 주제(키워드) Korean Sign Language , locus agreement , ditransitive verbs , object shift , modality-independence , 한국수어 , 위치일치 , 삼항동사 , 목적어전이 , 양식중립성
- 발행기관 한국외국어대학교 언어연구소
- 발행년도 2021
- 총서유형 Journal
- KCI ID ART002719379
- 본문언어 한국어
초록/요약
This paper inquires the linguistic status of locus and deals in particular with its grammatical role in agreement phenomena in Korean Sign Language(KSL). Upon reviewing several ways in which locus is utilized in KSL such as its anaphoric usage in discourse, its sensitivity to grammatical function in Role Shift, and its asymmetrically underspecified interpretation in verbal inflection, we argue that a non-linguistic gestural account fails to provide sufficient explanation for its behaviors. Instead, it is proposed that locus agreement in KSL is an instance of agreement proper, governed by modality-independent syntactic principles. An explicit formal analysis within the Minimalist Program is proposed to account for a seemingly challenging ditransitive agreement phenomenon in KSL. The proposal captures the ditransitive agreement verbs’ optional controller selection by identifying KSL as an object shift language where a complement of a verb undergoes an optional movement to a VP-external position, a phenomenon well-documented in multiple spoken languages. This again highlights the viability of modality-independent syntactic principles in operation for both signed and spoken languages.
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