One Operator or Two? Generic and Habitual "Characterizing" Sentences in ASL
Description
Generic NPs are marked with "brow raise". Habituals are marked with lexical TEND and/or aspectual reduplication for verbs. GEN is a dyadic operator with brow raise on its restriction. In contrast, HABITUAL is a monadic operator locally scoping on the verb. Treatment of these together under the heading "characterizing sentences" obscures necessary distinctions.
Location
Grissom Hall, Room 118
Start Date
3-5-2016 9:00 AM
End Date
3-5-2016 9:30 AM
Recommended Citation
Wilbur, Ronnie, "One Operator or Two? Generic and Habitual "Characterizing" Sentences in ASL" (2016). Purdue Linguistics, Literature, and Second Language Studies Conference. 2.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/plcc/purduelanguagesandculturesconference2016/LINGSessionTwo/2
One Operator or Two? Generic and Habitual "Characterizing" Sentences in ASL
Grissom Hall, Room 118
Generic NPs are marked with "brow raise". Habituals are marked with lexical TEND and/or aspectual reduplication for verbs. GEN is a dyadic operator with brow raise on its restriction. In contrast, HABITUAL is a monadic operator locally scoping on the verb. Treatment of these together under the heading "characterizing sentences" obscures necessary distinctions.