Verbchanges

[Brian Nolan]

Kristín,

There is a paper on ITM and verbs within a Blending Theory account in issue 17 of the ITB Journal that may be of use to you. The paper additionally has many references that might help you.

This issue 17 of the ITB Journal is available as a free download from:

http://www.itb.ie/ResearchatITB/itbjournal.html

I hope you find this useful.

Best regards,

Brian

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Dr. Brian Nolan
Head of Department of Informatics
School of Informatics and Engineering
Institute of Technology Blanchardstown
Blanchardstown Road North
Blanchardstown
Dublin 15
Ireland
email: brian.nolan at itb.ie
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On 20 Mar 2011, at 14:57, Kristín Lena Þorvaldsdóttir wrote:

> Dear all
> 
> I am a graduate student at the University of Iceland. I am writing my
> masters thesis on verbs in Icelandic Sign Language (ITM).
> My preliminary results on the three different verb groups in ITM; plain
> verbs, agreement verbs and spatial verbs (if you will), show a diachronic
> change between these three groups (see explanation below).
> I haven´t found any literature on similar findings in other sign
> languages. Do you know of any accessible research or discussion on this
> matter? If so, I would be most grateful if you could point me in the right
> direction either by answering me here on the list or contacting me
> privately at kth4 at hi.is,
> 
> My preliminary results on ITM show that verbs in the group ´plain verbs´
> are devided into two subgroups, that is ´original plain verbs´ and
> ´classifier plain verbs´ and the latter seems to be orginated in the group
> ´spatial verbs´ but has lost its ability to move in space.
> Plain verbs (that denote transfer) seem to be able to move to the group
> ´agreement verbs´ by altering the verbs orientation or movement to denote
> subject or object.
> Spatial verbs also seem to be able to alter their orientation and movement
> to denote subject or object and become agreement verbs.
> 
> So, plain verbs can become agreement verbs, spatial verbs can become plain
> verbs or agreement verbs, but agreement verbs are not able to change into
> verbs of the other two groups. As I said, these are only the preliminary
> results of my research and this is still only a hypothesis.
> 
> I would be grateful for anything you could tell be on this matter, in
> other sign languages.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Kristín Lena Thorvaldsdóttir
> The University of Iceland
> kth4 at hi.is
> 

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