1 Analysis of Relative Clause Constructions (RCC) in Turkish Sign Language (TİD) in Discourse Modes Okan Kubus & Christian Rathmann Universität Hamburg 33. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 23. - 25. Februar 2011
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Analysis of Relative ClauseConstructions (RCC) in
Turkish Sign Language (TİD)in Discourse Modes
Okan Kubus & Christian RathmannUniversität Hamburg
33. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS)
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 23. - 25. Februar 2011
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Outline• Introduction
– RCCs in Sign Languages– RCCs in TiD
• Methodology• Discourse Modes• Proposal: Interaction between RCCs and
Discourse Modes• Analysis using (Segmented) Discourse
Representation Theory• Conclusion and Discussion
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Relative Clause:Working Definition
– „A Relative Clause (RC) is a subordinate clause whichdelimits the reference of Noun Phrase (NP) by specifying therole of the referent of that NP is in the role of the referent ofthat NP in the situation described by the RC“(Andrews 2008, p.206)
– „What distinguishes relative clauses from other subordinateclauses is that there is a direct link between an element inthe relative and in the matrix.“(de Vries, p.1)
IHRCRCs in TiD > 3. RCs in TiD > c. Preliminary Results
rc [ İKİNCİ ÜÇÜNCÜ EVLİ EVLİ AYNI ] O(iki el) MiSAFiR(istes) SOHBET [ SECOND THIRD MARRIED MARRIED SAME ] PROREL(2h) VISIT(rec) CHAT Second and third women, both of whom are married too, were chatting.
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Methodology
Corpus-Based Data:
– Naturalistic data (approx. 3 hours video)– Free storytellings– sign vlogs (publicly accessible in internet)
– monologues in various discourse modes:– narrative, descriptive and information modes
(Smith 2003)
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Annotation and Transcription: iLex
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Discourse modes
• Narrative– Consists episodes, events and states in sequences, which are
• Token Analysis:– 106 RC-constructions (out of 2456 chunks)
934Report1759Information314Description
196592Narrative
ChunkRCoccurence
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Functions of RCCs in Discourse
• According to the data, RCCs in TİD isobserved to have two basic discoursefunctions:– RCCs as discourse deixis (Characterization)
• No discourse anaphora
– RCCs as anaphora (Reidentification)• Referents or events have reference within the text.• Justified with SDRT
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Segmented DRT(Asher & Lascarides 2003)
• Framework for the examples involvinganaphora and other kinds of semanticdisambiguities
• in Rhetorical Structure
• Discourse referents is also involved, we caninterrelate the labels (π1... πk).
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rel(4) [ İKİNCİi ÜÇÜNCÜj EVLİ EVLİ AYNI ] O(iki el)i,j SOHBET [ SECONDi THIRDj MARRIED MARRIED SAME ] PROREL(2h)i,j CHAT
Second and third women, both of whom are married too, were chatting.
Context: (in a village) There arethree women. One ofthem is single while two of them aremarried. Single onesis jealous of these married womenbecause they are visitingeachother.
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SDRSSegmented Discourse Representation Structures
• ....• π3:There were three women knowing each
other for years• π4: One woman was married• π4: Another woman married thereafter• π5: The one was still single• ....• π10: Second and third women, both of
• Language specific features– Syntactic constructions– Semantic functions
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