The Nature of Verb Categories in American Sign Language

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2003
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Swarthmore College. Dept. of Linguistics
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This thesis explores the nature of the categorization of predicates in American Sign Language (ASL). In particular, the distinction between directional and nondirectional predicates is examined. For some types of verbs, this distinction is found to be predictable through an exploration of the phonetic and semantic features of predicates in each category. The implications of this finding are discussed with respect to theories that tie directionality to syntactic agreement features.
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