Linguistics in Amsterdam 5-1 (January 2012)

Word order in Russian Sign Language

An extended report

Vadim Kimmelman

ACLC .


Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Basic word order in sign and spoken languages
2.1 Basic word order in spoken languages
2.2 Word order in sign languages
2.2.1 General properties
2.2.2. Morpho-syntactic factors
2.2.3 Semantic factors
2.2.4 Pragmatic factors
2.2.5 Modality-specific factors
2.2.6 The basic word order
3 Methodology
3.1 Different approaches to data collection
3.2 Corpus
3.3 Experiment
3.4 Analysis
3.4.1 Syntactic labels and clause boundaries
3.4.2 Prosody
4 Word order in RSL
4.1 Subject position
4.2 Object position
4.2.1 General picture
4.2.2. Verb class and object position
4.2.3 Other factors
4.3 Locative clauses
4.4 Doubling
Discussion
5.1 The basic word order of RSL
5.2 Methodological issues
Conclusions
Appendix I
Appendix II
Appendix III
Notes
List of references