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| Author(s): |
Jessica Arroteia
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem |
| Defense date: | 2005-11-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Jairo Morais Nunes;
Mary Aizawa Kato;
Evani Viotti;
Sonia Maria Lazzarini Cyrino;
Regina Maria de Souza
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| Advisor: | Jairo Morais Nunes; Ronice Muller de Quadros |
| Abstract | |
This thesis aims at describing and explaining how some elements mark negation or contribute to the interpretation of negative sentences in Brazilian Sign Language (LSB). LSB shows negative elements in both manual and nonmanual components, as in (1). (1) _________________________neg a. IX1 NÃO lENCONTRARa NADAa 1.sg not 1meet3 nobody 'I dind't meet anyone.' _________________________neg b. NADAa aENCONTRARb NADAb nobody 3meet3 nobody 'Nobody met anybody.' A detailed analysis of the non-manual marking showed its splitting into headshake and nega tive facial expressions. The main hypothesis is to show that negative facial expressions are the negative default marker, and the headshake contributes only affectivitily to negative sentences. This thesis also discusses the role played by each of these non-manual negative markers in sentences like (1 ). Chapter 1 presents the split of non-manual marker into headshake and negative facial expressions. Chapter 2 presents Hageman's (1995) and Giannakidou's (2000) models, and the way each of them explains negative concord phenomena. Chapter 3 describes manual signs for negation in LSB, specially NÃO 'not' and NADA 'nothing', discussing their contribution as negative markers and as n-words. Chapter 4 deals with non-manual markers showing evidence that the headshake presents affectivity features and that facial expression is associated with an inflectional head. Finally, chapter 5 discusses the interaction of manual and non-manual markers; it shows that the negative facial expression licenses n-words either in subject or object positions. It also shows that LSB presents strict negative concord, licensed by the presence of the negative facial expression (AU) | |