Fachbereichskolloquium: A special kind of lexical expressions - iconic word classes in spoken and sign languages
Wann
Donnerstag, 6. Juni 2024
11:45 bis 13:15 Uhr
Wo
G 307
Veranstaltet von
Fachbereich Linguistik
Vortragende Person/Vortragende Personen:
Cornelia Ebert und Markus Steinbach (Universität Göttingen und Universität Frankfurt)
Typological research has shown that many typologically different spoken languages have ideophones, a special class of words which can be defined as “an open lexical class of marked words that depict sensory imagery” (Dingemanse 2019). Based on data from German Sign Language (DGS), we argue that also sign languages have a special class of signs, so-called idiomatic signs, that share the defining properties of ideophones and show related semantic behavior.
Abstract