Abstract published In: Sign Language & Linguistics
Vol. 28:2 (2025) ► pp.309–321
Dissertation abstract
Interrogatives in Indian Sign Language
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Published online: 26 September 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00096.kul
https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00096.kul
Article outline
- Context of the work
- Methodology
- Personal interviews
- Role-Play
- Story remembering task
- Story completion task
- Judgment task
- Context production task
- Findings
- Finding 1: Position of wh-words in ISL
- Finding 2: Non-manual markers
- Finding 3: Transitivity and the placement of verbs in various wh-interrogatives
- Finding 4: Language change
- Finding 5: Syntactic analysis
- Conclusion
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