The Pragmatics of Person and Imperatives in Sign Language of the Netherlands

Emar Maier; Kees de Schepper; Martine Zwets

doi:10.2478/rela-2013-0010

The Pragmatics of Person and Imperatives in Sign Language of the Netherlands

Emar Maier, Kees de Schepper, Martine Zwets

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Abstract

We present new evidence against a grammatical distinction between second and third person in Sign Language of The Netherlands (NGT). More precisely, we show how pushing this distinction into the domain of pragmatics helps account for an otherwise puzzling fact about the NGT imperative: not only is it used to command your addressee, it can also express ‘non-addressee-oriented commands’.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	359-376
Number of pages	18
Journal	Research in Language
Volume	11
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2478/rela-2013-0010
Publication status	Published - Dec-2013

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imperatives,person,pointing,pragmatics,sign language

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