Causatividade em Libras

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ID5771681
AuthorsAlliny De Matos Ferraz Andrade (0000-0002-7863-1764, corresponding author)
Year2015
Publication date2015-05-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeTHESIS
PublisherBiblioteca Central da UNB (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.26512/2015.05.d.18818
OpenAlexW2180082310
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited7

Causativity is a situation consisting of two events where there is a causer and a causee.In the construction of a causative statement, a predicate of cause is associated to a predicate of effect.Some strategies are used to increase valency and to bring in this "causer", so that, semantically, there is the possibility to construct causative statements.Such constructions, considered as a natural linguistic phenomenon, have already been observed and registered in various research papers on verbal languages.Up to the present moment, little has been found about this subject in the literature of sign languages, and we could not find research on causative forms in the Brazilian Sign Language (Libras), although we notice their presence in speech.The present research is a study of the Brazilian Sign Language syntax with the purpose to register how causative statements are constructed in this language (Libras), as well as some particularities.The data revealed that i) Libras has periphrastic causative constructions, II) when causation is deliberate, it shows a peculiar marking with more linguistic material than the other less volitional causation, also using some signs to attribute greater volition to the causer, in addition to III) showing repetitions of parts of the speech to value the super-agent and its volition.The analyses described are based on a functional approach, since we understand that the functioning of a language surpasses the exclusive concern regarding competencies for the grammatical organization of sentences.The data registered in the research analyze the language based on its use by speakers of Brazilian Sign Language as a mother tongue

Agrammatism · Aphasia · Causation · Causative · Cognitive psychology · Linguistics · Phenomenon · Predicate (mathematical logic · Syntax · Verb · Volition (linguistics · Computer Science · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · linguistics and terminology studies · Philosophy · Psychology

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