Blending languages: linguistic descriptions

• Autor(a) principal: Quadros, Ronice Müller de
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Lillo-Martin, Diane, Klamt, Marilyn Mafra
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Fórum Linguístico
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/forum/article/view/77231

This article presents the phenomenon of blending of languages in bimodal bilinguals. For bimodal bilinguals, the languages acquired during linguistic development involve different modalities: a sign language and a spoken language. Because the languages are expressed in different modalities, it is possible to produce structures using both languages simultaneously. We use such productions to better understand the architecture of bilingual linguistic systems both in general and for bimodal bilinguals in particular. The investigation that gave rise to this study works with two pairs of languages: Brazilian sign language (Libras) with Brazilian Portuguese (PB), and American Sign Language (ASL) with American English (EA). The results presented here focus on the pair Libras and PB, although there is a close parallel found in the pair ASL and EA. The grammatical aspects covered involve two types of constructions in blending production: passives and causatives. The bimodal productions show a consistent convergence as provided by our view of the synthesis of languages.