Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2000. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-168).

Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2000. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-168).

Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2000. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-168).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Linguistics, Dec. 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

This research represents an initial attempt at a linguistic analysis of the grammar of Egyptian Sign Language (LIM). The paper addresses verbal agreement, negation, and aspectual marking in LIM and frames these grammatical features in a typological context. Particular attention is paid to the class of directional verbs, which spatially inflect to agree with their arguments, and the sub-class of backward directional verbs. The agreement structures of these verbs, as well as suppletive imperative verbal forms, generally pattern with directional verbs in other signed languages; this paper analyzes apparent exceptions in relation to similar irregularities in other signed languages. There is an unusually large inventory of negative-marking strategies and an average-sized set of aspectual markers in LIM. Among them are crosslinguistically uncommon patterns such as frustrative (non-success/non-achievement) aspectual marking, a negative imperative, and possibly also morphological negation via either handshape change or palm-orientation reversal. The analyses and questions presented here lay the groundwork for future research in LIM and other signed languages. / text

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 220-228). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

I propose that the HKSL phrase structure has a head-initial vP, but a head-final TP and NegP given the word order and syntactic positions of various functional elements, modals, auxiliary-like elements and negators. Previous discussion on Continuity-Maturation debate largely focuses on the presence/absence of functional projections in child phrase structure. The fact that functional projections are available at an early age in HKSL suggests that the early phrase structure is not just VP (as suggested by the Small Clause Hypothesis). The data show further that syntactic movement like V-to-v movement, object shift and subject raising in the adult grammar take time to develop. The findings support the Continuity view. / The grammatical category VERB in HKSL can be in various forms: lexical verbs and classifier predicates. Lexical verbs have three subtypes: agreement verbs, spatial verbs and plain verbs. These three types of lexical verbs have different properties. Agreement verbs can be marked overtly for verb agreement. Spatial verbs may encode locations of the entities. Plain verbs contrast with agreement verbs in that they are not marked for any agreement morphology or spatial locations. Classifier predicates usually consist of a verb root and classifier handshapes which may refer to the arguments. Given different properties of these different forms, the HKSL verbs are regrouped as plain verbs and non-plain verbs (i.e. agreement verbs, spatial verbs and verb roots of classifier predicates). A development from morphologically simpler verbs to morphologically complex verbs is observed while other factors like knowledge of signing space and input ambiguity also influence the developmental pattern of various kinds of verbs. / This thesis examines different forms of VERB and functional elements in a set of longitudinal data of a deaf child named CC in order to address the Continuity-Maturation debate. In particular, I explore the development of various forms of VERB, which lays the foundation of the study of early HKSL phrase structure. The Continuity-Maturation debate is addressed on the basis of presence/absence of a light verb phrase (vP), Tense Phrase (TP) and Negation Phrase (NegP) and syntactic movements like V-to-v movement, object shift and subject raising in early HKSL. / Lam, Wai Sze. / Adviser: Wai Lan Gladys Tang. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-01, Section: A, page: 0164. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 269-279). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese.

Lam Wai-sze. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 209-214). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgements --- p.i / Abstract --- p.iii / List of Abbreviations --- p.v / Table of Contents --- p.vi / Chapter Chapter One --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.0 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- "Research Focus.," --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Methodology --- p.4 / Chapter 1.3 --- Notational Conventions --- p.8 / Chapter 1.4 --- Thesis Outline --- p.11 / Chapter Chapter Two --- Verb Agreement in Spoken Languages --- p.13 / Chapter 2.0 --- Introduction --- p.13 / Chapter 2.1 --- Realizations of agreement features --- p.13 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Personal Pronoun --- p.14 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Verb Agreement --- p.17 / Chapter 2.1.2.1 --- Subject-verb agreement --- p.17 / Chapter 2.1.2.2 --- Subject-verb agreement and verb-object agreement --- p.21 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Summary --- p.24 / Chapter 2.2 --- Properties of agreement markers --- p.24 / Chapter 2.3 --- Formal Approaches to Verb Agreement --- p.26 / Chapter 2.4 --- Chapter Summary --- p.34 / Chapter Chapter Three --- Verb Agreement in Signed Languages --- p.35 / Chapter 3.0 --- Introduction --- p.35 / Chapter 3.1 --- Agreement features in personal pronouns --- p.35 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Person --- p.35 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Number --- p.42 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- Gender --- p.43 / Chapter 3.1.4 --- Summary --- p.43 / Chapter 3.2 --- Verbs and agreement marking --- p.43 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Verb Types --- p.44 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Verb Agreement --- p.50 / Chapter 3.2.2.1 --- Verb Agreement as a relation between verbs and arguments ´ؤ true or not true? --- p.52 / Chapter 3.2.2.2 --- Why location marking is not part of agreement marking? --- p.62 / Chapter 3.2.2.3 --- Confusion on person distinctions --- p.63 / Chapter 3.2.2.4 --- Number and Gender marking --- p.66 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Summary --- p.68 / Chapter 3.3 --- Optionality of verb agreement in signed languages --- p.68 / Chapter 3.4 --- Role shift and verb agreement --- p.69 / Chapter 3.5 --- Formal approaches to verb agreement in signed languages --- p.72 / Chapter 3.5.1 --- Semantic approaches --- p.72 / Chapter 3.5.2 --- Syntactic approaches --- p.75 / Chapter 3.5.3 --- Mathur's (2000) phonological analysis --- p.78 / Chapter 3.6 --- Differences in verb agreement in spoken languages and signed languages --- p.79 / Chapter 3.7 --- Chapter Summary --- p.81 / Chapter Chapter Four --- Verb Agreement in Hong Kong Sign Language --- p.83 / Chapter 4.0 --- Introduction --- p.83 / Chapter 4.1 --- Person in personal pronouns --- p.84 / Chapter 4.2 --- Person marking in verbs --- p.94 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Verb Types --- p.95 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Spatial verbs and plain verbs ´ؤ absence of agreement marking --- p.97 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Agreement marking on agreement verbs --- p.101 / Chapter 4.2.3.1 --- Person distinctions in HKSL --- p.102 / Chapter 4.2.3.2 --- ´ب Optional agreement marking in HKSL --- p.112 / Chapter 4.2.3.3 --- Obligatory agreement marking in HKSL --- p.116 / Chapter 4.2.3.4 --- Absence of person marking --- p.122 / Chapter 4.2.4 --- Does non-manual marking serve as an agreement marker in HKSL? --- p.123 / Chapter 4.2.5 --- Summary --- p.125 / Chapter 4.3 --- Role shift and person marking --- p.126 / Chapter 4.4 --- Person marking and location marking --- p.132 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- How do we identify location marking? --- p.132 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- How does location marking affect person marking? --- p.135 / Chapter 4.4.3 --- Is person marking covert in the presence of location marking? --- p.140 / Chapter 4.4.4 --- Summary --- p.142 / Chapter 4.5 --- "Person marking, Role shift and Location marking" --- p.143 / Chapter 4.6 --- Interim discussion --- p.144 / Chapter 4.6.1 --- Linguistic space --- p.144 / Chapter 4.6.2 --- Optional verb agreement revisited --- p.145 / Chapter 4.6.3 --- Modalities and verb agreement --- p.146 / Chapter 4.7 --- Chapter Summary --- p.149 / Chapter Chapter Five --- Towards an explanation --- p.150 / Chapter 5.0 --- Introduction --- p.150 / Chapter 5.1 --- Theoretical background --- p.150 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- The Minimalist Program (MP) --- p.150 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- The nature of features --- p.152 / Chapter 5.1.3 --- Agreement marking and functional categories --- p.156 / Chapter 5.1.4 --- Feature checking as an agreement mechanism --- p.160 / Chapter 5.1.5 --- Optionality in MP.… --- p.168 / Chapter 5.2 --- Analysis of HKSL person agreement --- p.169 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Agreement projections in HKSL --- p.170 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Feature checking in HKSL --- p.172 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Optionality in person agreement in HKSL --- p.179 / Chapter 5.3 --- Reconsideration of the concept of Verb Agreement --- p.181 / Chapter 5.4 --- Chapter Summary --- p.182 / Chapter Chapter Six --- Conclusion --- p.183 / Appendices --- p.186 / Appendix 1 Sample picture stimuli for the picture narration --- p.187 / Appendix 2 Citation forms of elicited verbs in HKSL --- p.191 / Appendix 3 Figures of examples presented in Chapter Four --- p.196 / Appendix 4 Number marking in ASL --- p.206 / Appendix 5 Remarks on plural pronouns in HKSL --- p.208 / References --- p.209

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2004. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-273).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.