Nominal number in sign languages
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2022
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This study describes the manifestation of the category of number in sign
languages, aiming to identify the values, the main forms and strategies available and
some intramodal and intermodal manifestation patterns, considering the noun phrase.
To this end, we worked with a sample of 10 sign languages, from different regions and
historical groups. Based on secondary data, we identified that some sign languages have
optional number marking, which presupposes the presence of the general number, and
that other sign languages have obligatory number marking. In sign languages where
number marking is optional, the general form is similar to the singular form, expressed
by zero. The values of the category of number are singular, plural and dual, expressed
by syntactic and morphological strategies, but preference is given for the former. This
preference suggests that sign languages are isolating languages with regard to the
category of number, differing typologically from spoken languages in this respect.
Furthermore, the number system in sign languages appears to be phonologically driven.
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Tipologia de línguas de sinais, Universais, Número, Pluralidade, Sign language typology, Universals, Number, Plurality
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CARNEIRO, Bruno Gonçalves; BORGES, Mônica Veloso; ALDRETE, Miroslava Cruz. Nominal number in sign languages. Revista de Estudos da Linguagem, Belo Horizonte, v. 30, n. 4, p. 1719-1751, 2022. DOI: 10.17851/2237-2083.30.4.1719-1751. Disponível em: http://www.periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/relin/article/view/21367. Acesso em: 15 mar. 2023.