The Non-Manual Markers in the Adverbial Causal Hypotaxis in Libras
This research aims at analyzing the non-manual markers in the hypotactic adverbial causal clauses in Brazilian Sign Language (Libras). Libras is a visual-spatial language and thus employs, besides the manual signs, the non-manual markers as a strategy of combining complex clauses. In this research i...
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Facultad de Lenguas. Universidad Nacional del Comahue
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revele.uncoma.edu.ar/index.php/lingustica/article/view/4402 |
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| Sumario: | This research aims at analyzing the non-manual markers in the hypotactic adverbial causal clauses in Brazilian Sign Language (Libras). Libras is a visual-spatial language and thus employs, besides the manual signs, the non-manual markers as a strategy of combining complex clauses. In this research it is analyzed the data of four reference deaf from Corpus of Libras at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. The analyses were conveyed on Elan, where specific tiers for the non-manuals, as well as glosses and sentence type tiers were created. The focus is mainly on the clauses that present non-manual markers, as well as the layering of these non-manuals on the signs that combine the clauses. The analysis reveals that the non-manual markers function as a syntactic mechanism for enhancing the causal hypotaxis. The findings point out that the facial expressions, such as the eye blink and mouthing, function as a clause articulator that enhance the combining of causal clauses. Some clauses casually present other non-manual markers such as the raised eyebrows, squinted eyes, head nod and the shoulder lift. |
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