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Constructed Action, the Clause and the Nature of Syntax in Finnish Sign Language
Open Linguistics, 2017 This paper investigates the interplay of constructed action and the clause in Finnish Sign Language (FinSL). Constructed action is a form of gestural enactment in which the signers use their hands, face and other parts of the body to represent the ...
Jantunen Tommi
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Role-taking in two micro-community sign languages: Phylogenetic insights
Frontiers in Communication, 2022 This study aimed to examine the use of role-taking constructions in two micro-community sign languages (SLs): Yucatec Maya SL (YMSL), and Soure SL. Various role-taking types were quantified and changes in gaze direction were annotated on data regarding ...
Emmanuella Martinod, Emmanuella Martinod
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Show Me What You’ve B/Seen: A Brief History of Depiction
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Already at a relatively early stage, modern sign language linguistics focused on the representation of (actions, locations, and motions of) referents (1) through the use of the body and its different articulators and (2) through the use of particular ...
Inez Beukeleers +2 more
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Defining the Concept of Practical Theology Based on Tabatabaei's Metaphysics of Action [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2022 The concept of practical theology depends on our idea about action and its relation to theology. The metaphysics of action is a study of the ontological role of action, its position among other things, and its relation to other objects.
Mahdi Saatchi
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Towards non-Archimedean superstrings
Nuclear Physics B, 2022 An action for a prospect of a p-adic open superstring on a target Minkowski space is proposed. The action is constructed for ‘worldsheet’ fields taking values in the p-adic field Qp, but it is assumed to be obtained from a discrete action on the Bruhat ...
Hugo García-Compeán, Edgar Y. López
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Revista Baiana de Educação Matemática, 2020 In this article the authors describe data from an ethnographical study about the playing of Uril, a mancala-type game played in the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde.
Ana Lúcia Braz Dias, Juliana Braz Dias
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Agent defocusing in two-participant clauses in Finnish Sign Language
Glossa, 2019 This article investigates what strategies are used for defocusing the agent in two-participant clauses in FinSL. The question is approached by analyzing a set of data that consists of videotaped informational texts.
Sanna Nordlund
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Perspective in signed discourse: the privileged status of the signer’s locus and gaze
Open Linguistics, 2015 In gesture studies character viewpoint and observer viewpoint (McNeill 1992) characterize co-speech gestures depending on whether the gesturer’s hand and body imitate a referent’s hand and body or the hand represents a referent in its entirety.
Engberg-Pedersen Elisabeth
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The Basic Reproduction Number and Delayed Action of T Cells for Patients Infected with SARS-CoV-2
Mathematics, 2022 COVID-19 has been prevalent for the last two years. The transmission capacity of SARS-CoV-2 differs under the influence of different epidemic prevention policies, making it difficult to measure the infectivity of the virus itself.
Yingdong Yin +3 more
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Indicating verbs in British Sign Language favour motivated use of space
Open Linguistics, 2015 Sign languages have traditionally been described as having a distinction between (1) arbitrary (referential or syntactic) space, considered to be a purely grammatical use of space in which locations arbitrarily represent concrete or abstract subject and ...
Cormier Kearsy +2 more
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