Some properties of neg-raising in three sign languages
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Neg-raising, the phenomenon whereby a negation in the main clause of a complex construction
is interpreted as if belonging to the embedded clause, has been intensively
studied in spoken languages. The same cannot be said for sign languages. In this paper,
we investigate the properties of Neg-raising constructions in three sign languages:
French Sign Language, Italian Sign Language, and Sign Language of the Netherlands.
We report on two syntactic tests we applied to disambiguate Neg-raising and non-Negraising
readings, showing that Neg-raising constructions have similar properties in the
three sign languages that we studied, as well as in comparable constructions in spoken
languages. We also discuss some intricate headshake spreading patterns we found in
Neg-raising constructions in Sign Language of the Netherlands, a non-manual dominant
sign language.
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