Novel compounding and the emergence of structure in two young sign languages

Author:

Tkachman Oksana1ORCID,Meir Irit2

Affiliation:

1. University of British Columbia, 2613 West Mall, V6T 1Z4 Vancouver

2. Haifa University

Abstract

This paper investigates how structure emerges in a young language, focusing on compounding in two young sign languages, Israeli Sign Language (ISL) and Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL). We focus on novel compounds (tokens invented on the spot) to ensure that we are studying a productive process and to avoid issues contingent with lexicalization. We found that both languages make use both of compounding and size-and-shape classifier constructions (SASS-constructions), but ISL and ABSL have conventionalized different structures and the structures they do use are conventionalized to different degrees. We discuss the similarities and differences of those constructions in ISL and ABSL in the context of structure emergence and language evolution.

Publisher

Open Library of the Humanities

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

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