5. Reciprocal constructions in Indo-Pakistani Sign Language

Zeshan, Ulrike; Panda, Sibaji

doi:10.1075/tsl.98.05zes

In:Reciprocals and Semantic Typology
Edited by Nicholas Evans, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson and Asifa Majid
[Typological Studies in Language 98] 2011
► pp. 91–114

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5. Reciprocal constructions in Indo-Pakistani Sign Language

Ulrike Zeshan | University of Central Lancashire, Preston UK & Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

Sibaji Panda | University of Central Lancashire, Preston UK & Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

Published online: 18 August 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.98.05zes

Indo-Pakistani Sign Language (IPSL) is the sign language used by deaf communities in a large region across India and Pakistan. This visual-gestural language has a dedicated construction for specifically expressing reciprocal relationships, which can be applied to agreement verbs and to auxiliaries. The reciprocal construction relies on a change in the movement pattern of the signs it applies to. In addition, IPSL has a number of other strategies which can have a reciprocal interpretation, and the IPSL lexicon includes a good number of inherently reciprocal signs. All reciprocal expressions can be modified in complex ways that rely on the grammatical use of the sign space. Considering grammaticalisation and lexicalisation processes linking some of these constructions is also important for a better understanding of reciprocity in IPSL.

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