Browsing Philosophische Fakultät by Advisor "Steinbach, Markus Prof. Dr."
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Presuppositions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
(2024-03-11)While in traditional semantic accounts, presuppositions are widely accepted to be conceptualized as truth value preconditions, in most pragmatic accounts, they are considered to be a set of information that is normally or ... -
Providence Island Sign Language in Interaction
(2023-12-15)This dissertation examines sign language in interaction in a small Caribbean community. Providence Island Sign Language, used among deaf and hearing residents of in Providence, Colombia (Spanish: Providencia), has been ... -
The impact of verb type on word order in German Sign Language
(2022-08-11)Word order is one of the best studied and most discussed issues in spoken and sign language linguistics. Therefore, it is stunning that there is yet no broader empirical investigation of word order phenomena in German Sign ... -
Der Konditionalsatz in Deutscher Gebärdensprache (DGS) und Brasilianischer Gebärdensprache (Libras) - Eine empirische soziolinguistische Studie
(2021-08-05)Coordinated clauses, such as interrogative and declarative clauses, are well researched in various western-urban sign languages. However, complex subordinated clauses, like relative and conditional clauses in sign languages, ... -
Processing referential expressions in German Sign Language
(2021-05-17)In sign languages, physically absent discourse referents are assigned manually and/or nonmanually to referential locations on the horizontal plane of the signing space. These locations can be used to refer back to the ... -
Comprehension and production of referential expressions in German Sign Language and Turkish Sign Language: An empirical approach
(2019-07-03)Localization, which corresponds to the spatial anchoring of referents to the signing space, functions as a very powerful, yet not necessarily obligatory, device to track referents and maintain coherence in the discourse ... -
The processing of German Sign Language sentences
(2015-07-17)Sign languages have often been the subject of imaging studies investigating the underlying neural correlates of sign language processing. To the contrary, much less research has been conducted on the time-course of sign ... -
Abhängige Sätze in einem fragebasierten Diskursmodell
(2015-01-20)In this thesis, different types of dependent clauses will be investigated with respect to their behavior in a question-driven discourse model. It will be argued that one group of dependent clauses is conventionally marked ...