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
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_324319 |
| Date | January 2003 |
| Contributors | Lam, Wai-sze., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Linguistics. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, vii, 214 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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