LIN 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Village Sign, Inflection
15 May 2020
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Dependent on who the signs are meant for. A few people vs a lot of people. Small communities with a relatively high percentage of congenital deafness, typically isolated for social and/or geographical reasons. Typically no contact with or previous exposure to other sign languages. Typically o access to the national educational system or the major deaf community if there is one. Signing community is not the deaf community; includes both deaf and hearing people. Unrelated signers of different backgrounds come together in one place . Usually when a school for deaf kids is established. Linguistic background: other sign languages or home sign systems. Distribution of deaf people in the community. Varied level of interference from spoken language (mouthing, loans, grammatical constructions, etc. ) Varied range of functions fulfilled by a language: Not all communities use their sign language meta-linguistically. Sentence structure: one argument sentences (nv) > two-argument sentences with more or less fixed word order > more word order variety.
