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IPSL: A Database of Iconicity Patterns in Sign Languages. Creation and Use
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We created the first large-scale database of signs annotated according to various parameters of iconicity. The signs represent concrete concepts in seven semantic fields in nineteen sign languages; 1542 signs in total. Each sign was annotated with respect to the type of form-image association, the presence of iconic location and movement, personification, and with respect to whether the sign depicts a salient part of the concept. We also created a website: https://sl-iconicity.shinyapps.io/iconicity patterns/ with several visualization tools to represent the data from the database. It is possible to visualize iconic properties of separate concepts or iconic properties of semantic fields on the map of the world, and to build graphs representing iconic patterns for selected semantic fields. A preliminary analysis of the data shows that iconicity patterns vary across semantic fields and across languages. The database and the website can be used to further study a variety of theoretical questions related to iconicity in sign languages.
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Russkih A., Rossyaykin P., Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2026 No. 2 P. 7–31
This paper presents a typological questionnaire designed for the systematic and cross-linguistically comparable description of additive markers, such as English too or German auch, in any language of the world. The questionnaire comprises over 80 stimuli targeting the behavior of additives across 12 functions. It incorporates both morphosyntactic and semantic parameters of variation, identified through ...
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Komarova A., Davidenko T., Vinogradova V. et al., , in: International Perspectives on Sign Language Translator and Interpreter Education.: Gallaudet University Press, 2025. P. 310–326.
As of 2024, Russia is the largest country in the world, nearly twice the size of Canada. Forty percent of the land is located in Europe, and the rest, to the east of the Urals, is in Asia. It occupies 11% of the world’s land but has a population of around 146 million people, which ...
Added: February 7, 2025
Napier J., Webb S., Adam R., Gallaudet University Press, 2025.
Leading experts in sign language translator and interpreter education present the history and current state of the field in their respective countries. ...
Added: February 7, 2025
Ziubanova A., Laurinavichyute A., Parshina O., Frontiers in Psychology 2023 Vol. 14 No. 14 P. 1–9
Early linguistic background, and in particular, access to language, lays the foundation of future reading skills in deaf and hard-of-hearing signers. The current study aims to estimate the impact of two factors – early access to sign and/or spoken language – on reading fluency in deaf and hard-of-hearing adult Russian Sign Language speakers. ...
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Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2018.
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Sieber I., Вопросы языкознания 2024 № 2 С. 122–142
В статье описываются сонорные согласные чукотского языка, а особенное внимание уделено тем из них, которые демонстрируют значительную фонетическую вариативность: аппроксимантам и r. Эта вариативность осмысляется с точки зрения акустики и артикуляции, типологии, истории и диалектологии чукотско-корякских идиомов, социолингвистики и влияния русского языка. Многообразие подходов призвано связать воедино разрозненные факты о чукотском языке, объяснить необычные реализации ...
Added: October 16, 2023
Kimmelman V., Komarova A., Luchkova L. et al., Frontiers in Psychology 2022 Vol. 12 Article 740734
When describing variation at the lexical level in sign languages, researchers often distinguish between phonological and lexical variants, using the following principle: if two signs differ in only one of the major phonological components (handshape, orientation, movement, location), then they are considered phonological variants, otherwise they are considered separate lexemes. We demonstrate that this principle ...
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Ясин М. И., Vinogradova V., Психолог 2018 No. 4 P. 46–54
Изучение новых языков активно задействует когнитивные навыки. Это двухсторонней процесс: обучение влияет на познавательные функции, успешность обучения зависит от познавательных способностей и навыков. Жестовый язык глухих – особый язык, так как он разворачивается в непривычных для слышащих людей визуальной и кинестетической модальностях. Целью работы было изучить особенности внимания, которые играют ключевую роль в успешном овладении ...
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Kozlov A., Родной язык: лингвистический журнал 2023 № 1 С. 5–30
This paper focuses on the semantics of four analytical verbal constructions in Sakha (<Turkic). We describe the restrictions on the semantic type of the situation and its participants, as well as the construction’s combinability with different temporal and aspectual adverbials, which helps to reconstruct the aspectual profile of the constructions in question. ...
Added: December 9, 2022
Kozlov A., Zakirova A., Linguistica Uralica 2023 Vol. 59 No. 2 P. 154–188
The paper examines the semantics and distribution of the polyfunctional Hill Mari focus particle =ok. We describe two interpretations of =ok possible on a wide range of hosts: the exhaustive use and the counteradditive use; besides, we consider several uses that are only possible with a lexically or semantically conditioned set of entities. We argue ...
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Seržant I., Moroz G., Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 2022 Vol. 9 Article 58
Efficiency is central to understanding the communicative and cognitive underpinnings of language. However, efficiency management is a complex mechanism in which different efficiency effects—such as articulatory, processing and planning ease, mental accessibility, and informativity, online and offline efficiency effects—conspire to yield the coding of linguistic signs. While we do not yet exactly understand the interactional ...
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John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023.
The book offers a 360-degree discussion on the theoretical relevance of discourse phenomena for typology and, vice-versa, how a typological approach can be useful to provide new insights on the study of these phenomena. At the same time, it also aims at giving an account of less described or rare discourse phenomena in typologically interesting ...
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Golovanenko D. A., Uspenskij F., Вестник РГГУ. Серия «Литературоведение. Языкознание. Культурология» 2021 № 1 С. 73–85
Статья посвящена анализу примеров иконичности в поэзии скальдов. ...
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Moroz G., , in: Дурхъаси хазна. Сборник статей к 60-летию Р. О. Муталова.: М.: Буки Веди, 2021. P. 258–282.
In this article I present a connection between frequency and length of person-number indexes via two independent researches: token frequency obtained from the Universal Dependencies’ treebanks and type frequency gathered within a typological study. After introducing the results of those two studies, I will present East Caucasian data. I show that the unusual history of ...
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Постникова А. Е., Типология морфосинтаксических параметров 2021 Т. 3 № 2 С. 147–165
This article presents the results of a typological study of evidential systems in ninety two natural languages. The paper suggests some tendencies concerning the coding of evidentiality; it also considers the relationship between the grammaticalization and the semantics of evidential markers. ...
Added: February 11, 2021
Panova A., Philippova T., International Journal of Bilingualism 2021 Vol. 25 No. 3 P. 640–667
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The purpose of the study is to figure out what factors condition the phenomenon of preposition drop (P-drop) in locative, directional and temporal phrases. Specifically, we investigate what kind of phrases allow P-drop in Russian spoken in Highland Daghestan and aim at understanding the rationale for this phenomenon.
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We conduct a quantitative analysis ...
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Mamedshakhov R., В кн.: Иерархия и взаимодействие грамматических категорий глагола.: СПб.: Институт лингвистических исследований РАН, 2020. Гл. 10 С. 302–322.
Работа посвящена описанию взаимодействия и иерархии словоизменительных грамматических категорий глагола в рамках одной словоформы в арабском литературном языке. В работе анализируются категории наклонения, времени, вида, залога, в меньшей степени лица и числа. Хотя в основном рассматривается взаимодействие указанных категорий, несколько разделов дополнительно посвящены влиянию на подобное взаимодействие категорий одушевленности, рода, а также грамматической позиции. ...
Added: October 30, 2020
Bickel B., Nichols J., , in: The Language of Hunter-Gatherers.: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. P. 67–75.
It has long seemed plausible that the languages of hunter-gatherer societies might be systematically different from those of food producers. Compared to food-producing societies, hunter-gatherer societies are usually smaller and less complex, with lower population density. They are often based on kinship as a main organizing factor and usually lack large-scale sociopolitical organization with its ...
Added: October 27, 2020