@article{583832,
  address    = {Amsterdam/Philadelphia},
  author     = {Huddlestone, Kate},
  journal    = {Sign Language & Linguistics},
  number     = {1},
  pages      = {63-86},
  publisher  = {John Benjamins Publishing Company},
  title      = {Negation and polar question-answer clauses in South African Sign Language},
  url        = {https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.19014.hud},
  volume     = {24},
  year       = {2021},
  abstract   = {This paper contributes to the typological debate of whether sign languages should be divided into manual versus non-manual dominant languages, w.r.t. negation, a distinction that has recently been challenged (Johnston 2018) or argued to be too radical (Oomen & Pfau 2017), by providing a characterization of negation in South African Sign Language (SASL). It has also been observed in several sign languages that a construction which consists of a yes-no question followed by a negative fragment answer, both produced by the same speaker, can be used to negate a proposition. While this question-answer pair construction has received attention in the recent sign language literature, it is only mentioned in passing in the literature on negation. In this paper, I provide an analysis of these polar question-answer clauses as a grammaticalized negation strategy in SASL, following Caponigro and Davidson’s (2011) analysis of this construction in ASL.},
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  cfn        = {africa\huddlestone_south-african-sign2021.pdf},
  doi        = {10.1075/sll.19014.hud},
  fn         = {africa\huddlestone_south-african-sign2021.pdf},
  hhtype     = {specific_feature},
  inlg       = {English [eng]},
  issn       = {1387-9316},
  keywords   = {negation, sign language, syntax, non-manual marking, headshakes, question-answer pair, South African Sign Language},
  lgcode     = {South African Sign Language [sfs]},
  macro_area = {Africa},
  src        = {benjamins, hh}
}