Decomposing distribution across dimensions: evidence from Libras

• Autor(a) principal: Donazzan, Marta
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Sanchez-Mendes, Luciana
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/delta/article/view/52299
• topic: pluractionality; Libras; distribution; events

This paper focuses on the investigation of the meaning of reduplication in Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) analyzing the contribution of each of its forms: repetition (\rep) and alternation (\alt). In order to check their role, we proceeded a data collection with a native signer during elicitation sessions following the methodology for semantic elicitation (Matthewson, 2004). We also collected a spontaneous datum with another signer. We show that \rep is related to aspectual distribution, and \alt is associated to two pieces of information - participant-related distribution and aspectual distribution. We propose a formal analysis for each of the forms as well as of the way they interact compositionally.