In:Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages:
Edited by Annika Hübl and Markus Steinbach
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 247] 2018
► pp. xi–xii
List of abbreviations
Published online: 25 May 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.247.lob
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.247.lob
Asl
American Sign Language
a-rs
action role shift
Bsl
British Sign Language
ca
constructed action
cb
backward-looking center
cf
forward-looking center
cp
preferred center
ct
Centering Theory
DemPr
demonstrative pronoun
Dgs
German Sign Language (Deutsche Gebärdensprache)
dp
determiner phrase
Drt
Discourse Representation Theory
Enhg
Early New High German
Fid
Free Indirect Discourse
Hksl
Hong Kong Sign Language
Hzj
Croatian Sign Language (Hrvatskom Znakovnom Jeziku)
Hp
historical present
Israeli sl
Israeli Sign Language
L1
first language
L2
second language
Lsc
Catalan Sign Language (Llengua de signes catalana)
Mhg
Middle High German
np
noun phrase
Ohg
Old High German
PerPr
personal pronoun
pov
point of view predicate
pp
prepositional phrase
q-rs
quotation role shift
qud
question under discussion
Sasl
South African Sign Language
V2
verb-second (word order)
Notational conventions for examples from sign languages
sign
sign
ix
#
index, digit indicates referential loci in signing space
#
verb
#
agreement verb, digits indicate referential loci of subject and object in signing space
cl
classifier
+++
reduplication of a sign (e.g. in order to express plural)
:
pause/prosodic break
sign sign sign
simulateneous use of nonmanual markers and signs, small letters on the line refer to the form or to the function of the nonmanual marker
