Agent-backgrounding in Turkish Sign Language (TID)

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dc.authoridKelepir, Meltem/0000-0002-9680-2694
dc.authorwosidÖzkul, Aslı/AAQ-7061-2020
dc.authorwosidKelepir, Meltem/B-3025-2011
dc.contributor.authorKelepir, Meltem
dc.contributor.authorOzkul, Asli
dc.contributor.authorOzparlak, Elvan Tamyurek
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:57:01Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:57:01Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper investigates agent-backgrounding constructions in Turkish Sign Language (TID). TID displays many of the agent-backgrounding strategies reported in the literature that signed (and spoken) languages employ (Barbera & Cabredo Hotherr, this volume). Use of non-specific indefinite pronominals is a major strategy, and this paper is the first study that identifies these forms in TID. Moreover, we show that TID has ways of marking clusivity distinctions of indefinite arguments, and has a special sign that derives exclusive indefinite pronominals, OTHER. We argue that (i) whereas lateral-high R-locus is unambiguously associated with non-specificity, non-high (lateral and central) loci are underspecified in terms of specificity; (ii) the R-locus of indefinite arguments observed in agent-backgrounding contexts in TID consists of two spatial features [+high] and [+lateral] which express non-specificity and exclusivity. This study further shows that clusivity, usually associated with personal pronouns, must be extended to indefinite pronouns.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipEuropean Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [693349]; Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) [114E263]; H2020 Societal Challenges Programme [693349] Funding Source: H2020 Societal Challenges Programmeen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipWe would like to thank those who contributed to the development of this work with their comments during the FEAST Conference (Barcelona, UPF, 4-5 May 2015) and the Workshop on Impersonals and Passive in Sign Languages (Barcelona, UPF, 15-16 June 2015). We also thank our informants Zehra Gul Yigit, Yusuf Ermez, Yasin Yigit, Nuriye Koroglu, Jale Erdul, Gamze Uguz, Neveda Oner, Suna Keskin, Filiz Birinci Sezer, and Cem Barutcu. We thank the two anonymous reviewers and the editors of this volume for their invaluable feedback which helped us improve this paper. The errors are, of course, all ours. Finally, we would like to note that this study has been possible thanks to the SIGN-HUB project, which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no 693349, and thanks to the project A Signing Avatar System for Turkish to Turkish Sign Language Machine Translation, which has received funding from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) with the grant number #114E263.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1075/sll.00020.kel
dc.identifier.endpage283en_US
dc.identifier.issn1387-9316
dc.identifier.issn1569-996X
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85076227643en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2en_US
dc.identifier.startpage257en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00020.kel
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/8950
dc.identifier.volume21en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000462070700004en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Coen_US
dc.relation.ispartofSign Language & Linguisticsen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectİmpersonal Agentsen_US
dc.subjectAgent-Backgroundingen_US
dc.subjectİndefinitesen_US
dc.subjectNon-Specificityen_US
dc.subjectClusivityen_US
dc.subjectHigh R-Locusen_US
dc.titleAgent-backgrounding in Turkish Sign Language (TID)en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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