Grammar of gestures: Grammaticalization

Opened: Friday, 3 April 2020, 12:00 AM

Dear all,

If you need to know somethning about grammaticalization in spoken languages, read E. Traugott (pp. 269-276).

Read E. Fricke (pp. 740-746) and try do decide on what you know about sign languages so far:

1) Is there something similar for Fricke’s "gestures in grammar approach" and for grammaticalization of gestures in sign languages?

2) Are there any differences between Fricke’s "gestures in grammar approach" and grammaticalization of gestures in sign languages?

3) Do you see a concept of grammaticalization (in generall or specifically in spoken/sign languages) without problems or are there any?

You can also use an article written by Pfau and Steinbach and/or Pfau’s slides (if you want to).

Please, upload your answers in .doc format till Friday, April 10th (ca 1800 characters).

Thank you