The challenge of marking relative clauses in Turkish Sign Language

Okan Kubus; Derya Nuhbalaoglu

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The challenge of marking relative clauses in Turkish Sign Language

Abstract

This paper aims to show to what degree relativization strategies in Turkish Sign Language (TİD) are influenced by discourse functions of relative clauses, extending Kubus’ study (Kubus, 2016). In his study, Kubus describes various relativization strategies (i.e. internally headed, externally headed and free relatives) and identifies non-manual (i.e. squint, brow raise or slight-headshake) and occasionally additional manual relativizers (i.e. clause initial/final index (ix), ayni ‘same’ or different combinations of them). We outline possible reasons for the presence of these competing relative markers and discuss whether the above-mentioned non-manuals should be analyzed as prosodic/pragmatic or syntactic markers. We suggest that the nature of relative clauses in TİD can best be understood at the level of discourse.

Keywords

relativization strategies,Turkish Sign Language,(non)-manual markers,optionality

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Okan Kubus ^*
University of Hamburg
Germany

Derya Nuhbalaoglu
University of Goettingen
Germany

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July 2, 2018

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November 11, 2017

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June 8, 2018

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Kubus, O., & Nuhbalaoglu, D. (2018). The challenge of marking relative clauses in Turkish Sign Language. Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 29(1), 139-160. https://doi.org/10.18492/dad.373454

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