@article{584538,
  address    = {Amsterdam/Philadelphia},
  author     = {Morgan, Hope E.},
  journal    = {Sign Language & Linguistics},
  number     = {1-2},
  pages      = {38-72},
  publisher  = {John Benjamins Publishing Company},
  title      = {Argument structure and the role of the body and space in Kenyan Sign Language},
  url        = {https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00043.mor},
  volume     = {23},
  year       = {2020},
  abstract   = {This paper investigates how systematically a young macro-community sign language, Kenyan Sign Language, uses two different means to communicate about events: (i) word order, and (ii) verb agreement using spatial co-reference. The study finds that KSL signers rely primarily on word order and using the body as a referent, rather than verb agreement, when representing transitive events. Yet, by looking separately at how KSL signers use the sub-components of verb agreement, a pattern emerges that indicates a possible path toward ‘canonical verb agreement’. These sub-components are evaluated using Meir’s stages/types of grammaticalization of verb agreement (Meir 2011, 2016), and compared with other young and emerging sign languages.},
  doi        = {10.1075/sll.00043.mor},
  hhtype     = {specific_feature},
  inlg       = {English [eng]},
  issn       = {1387-9316},
  keywords   = {Kenyan Sign Language, argument structure, word order, verb agreement, spatial co-reference, macro-community sign languages},
  lgcode     = {Southwestern Kenya SL = Kenyan Sign Language [xki]},
  macro_area = {Africa},
  src        = {benjamins, hh}
}