Cornelia Loos

Biographic Data

ID6113526
NAMECornelia Loos
GIVEN NAMESCornelia
FAMILY NAMELoos
SIGNATURELOOS C
AFFILIATIONSUniversität Hamburg
ORCID0000-0003-2641-9400
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • A ministry of (not-so-silly) walks

    Open AccessIsabeau Lettow, Cornelia LoosARTICLEOpen Linguistics2025

    Across sign languages, classifier predicates depict the movement, location, or manipulation of (in-)animate entities. Each classifier predicate contains a classifier handshape that represents a referent based on one or more of its salient semantic and/or visual properties. In this article, we focus on a subset of entity classifiers in German Sign Language (DGS) that depict the movement and/or position of animate referents: The ‘1’-classifier, the…

  • Who’s going the distance here? Fictive motion in (German) sign language

    Open AccessCornelia Loos, Donna Jo NapoliARTICLECognitive Linguistics2025References: 7

    Frame-relative fictive motion describes a linguistic phenomenon whereby the motion of an entity is communicated via the – fictive – motion of stationary background objects. For instance, a woman’s experience of riding on a fast train might be described as The trees rushed past her . Such fictive-motion constructions allow the addressee to see the point of view of a character in a narrative, but in sign languages, they perform additional tasks. Ou…

  • Polar response strategies across modalities

    Open AccessCornelia Loos, Marilyn Steinbach et al.ARTICLELanguage2024

    Research on spoken languages has shown that response particles may indicate the truth of a previous utterance or the polarity of the response. In responses to negative antecedents, the two functions come apart and particles become ambiguous. We present the first quantitative study on response strategies in sign languages by discussing data from a production experiment in German Sign Language ( Deutsche Gebärdensprache ; DGS). The results indicate…

  • Sizing up adjectives

    Open AccessCornelia LoosARTICLESign Language & Linguistics2022

    Adjectives are often identified via notional or even translational criteria in sign language research, which reflects a lack of formal criteria for identifying this part of speech in the field. This paper presents the results of a guided production task investigating the conservative hypothesis that ASL has a small, closed adjective class consisting only of terms for dimension, age, value, and color. Evidence from the syntactic distribution of th…

  • The linguistic sources of offense of taboo terms in German Sign Language

    Open AccessCornelia Loos, Jens-Michael Cramer et al.ARTICLECognitive Linguistics2019Cited by: 3References: 7

    Taboo terms offer a playground for linguistic creativity in language after language, and sign languages form no exception. The present paper offers the first investigation of taboo terms in sign languages from a cognitive linguistic perspective. We analyze the linguistic mechanisms that introduce offense, focusing on the combined effects of cognitive metonymy and iconicity. Using the Think Aloud Protocol, we elicited offensive or crass signs and …