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- Title
On question words in Czech Sign Language.
- Authors
Strachoňová, Hana
- Abstract
This paper investigates content questions and the paradigm of question words in Czech Sign Language (český znakový jazyk – ČZJ). While this topic has been investigated for a fair number of other sign languages, a comprehensive study for ČZJ is still missing. Our aim is to fill this gap. In the absence of a representative corpus for ČZJ, we use data from the most extensive electronic dictionary database (Dictio), developed at the Masaryk University in Brno. We offer a basic description of the ČZJ interrogative strategies for content questions. In doing so, we also situate the language within the typology of sign language interrogatives: we classify ČZJ as a language with a rich paradigm of question words, and we identify the basic syntactic position of question words as sentence-final. Furthermore, we outline three morphological types of ČZJ question words: simple, complex, and derived.
- Subjects
BRNO (Czech Republic); MASARYK University; CZECH language; SIGN language; LINGUISTIC typology; ELECTRONIC dictionaries; VOCABULARY
- Publication
Sign Language & Linguistics, 2022, Vol 25, Issue 1, p58
- ISSN
1387-9316
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/sll.21001.str