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Constructed Action, the Clause and the Nature of Syntax in Finnish Sign Language [PDF]
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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Figure–Ground Spatial Relationships in Finnish Sign Language Discourse [PDF]
Open Linguistics, 2020 This study is about expressing spatial relationships between Figure and Ground in Finnish Sign Language discourse and shows that the variation in this expression is primarily discourse dependent.
De Weerdt Danny
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The macrostructure of narratives produced by children acquiring Finnish Sign Language. [PDF]
J Deaf Stud Deaf EducAbstract This article investigates the narrative skills of children acquiring Finnish Sign Language (FinSL). Producing a narrative requires vocabulary, the ability to form sentences, and cognitive skills to construct actions in a logical order for the recipient to understand the story.
Pietarinen H, Kanto L.
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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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Clausal coordination in Finnish Sign Language [PDF]
Speech Prosody 2016, 2016 peerReviewed
Tommi Jantunen
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Iconic strategies in lexical sensory signs in Finnish Sign Language
Cognitive Semiotics, 2021 AbstractIconic strategies—methods of making iconic forms—have been mostly considered in terms of concrete semantic fields such as actions and objects. In this article, I investigate iconic strategies in lexical sensory signs—signs that semantically relate to the five senses (sight, touch, smell, sound, and taste) and to emotions (e.g., anger)—in ...
Jarkko Keränen
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A DESCRIPTION OF TIME LINES IN FINNISH SIGN LANGUAGE
, 2020 This Master’s thesis focuses on the nature of time lines in Finnish Sign Language (FinSL). Sinte described the time lines in ten different sign languages in her paper from 2013. Her work was chosen as the framework for this thesis and the findings from FinSL were compared to the time lines presented in her paper.
Marko Kortesalo
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Existential sentences in Flemish Sign Language and Finnish Sign Language
SKY Journal of Linguistics, 2016 This paper presents a descriptive and comparative study of existential sentences in Flemish Sign Language and Finnish Sign Language. Existential sentences are used to express the existence or presence of something or someone. This study investigates how expressions of existence or presence are constructed and what the order of Figure and Ground is in ...
Danny De Weerdt
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Sociolinguistic Studies of Finnish Sign Language
Journal of Finnish StudiesAbstract This article aims to review the sociolinguistic situation of Finnish Sign Language (FinSL) and signers in Finland in general and provide an overview of some sociolinguistic studies conducted so far on FinSL. In their daily lives, signers, both deaf and hearing, often navigate multiple discourse contexts involving diverse ...
Anna Puupponen +3 more
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On the rhythm of head movements in Finnish and Swedish Sign Language sentences
Open Linguistics, 2016 AbstractThis 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 actions, thoughts or feelings of someone they are referring to in the discourse.
Tommi Jantunen +3 more
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