A categoria ‘número’ em línguas de sinais

• Ano de defesa: 2020
• Autor(a) principal: Carneiro, Bruno Gonçalves
• Orientador(a): Borges, Mônica Veloso
• Banca de defesa: Borges, Mônica Veloso, Barros, Mariângela Estelita, Milani, Sebastião Elias, Xavier, André Nogueira, Galvão, Vânia Cristina Casseb
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras e Linguística (FL)
• Departamento: Faculdade de Letras - FL (RG)
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Tipologia linguística; Universais; Número; Plural; Língua de sinais
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Linguistic typology; Universals; Number; Plural; Sign languages
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/10654

This research is a typology study on the number category in sign languages and, therefore, is based on linguistic typology as an approach to the study of human language (COMRIE, 1989; CROFT, 2003; DANIEL, 2013a; MORAVCSIK, 2013; PALFREYMAN; SAGARA; ZESHAN, 2015; PFAU; ZESHAN, 2016; VELUPILLAI, 2012; WHALEY, 1997; ZESHAN, 2008; ZESHAN; PALFREYMAN, 2017). The research describes the manifestation of the number category in sign languages, the goals are (i) identify the values present in the number category, considering the nominal phrase, (ii) describe the main forms and strategies available for the manifestation of these values, and (iii) present some intramodal and intermodal manifestation patterns, derived from the comparison between sign languages and between sign languages and oral languages. For this, we worked with a sample of 10 sign languages, from areas and different historical groups. From the (secondary) data, we verify there are sign languages have an optional number, which presupposes the presence of the general number, and sign languages have mandatory number. In sign languages where the number is optional, the general form is similar the singular form, expressed by zero. The category values are singular, plural and dual, expressed by syntactic and morphological strategies, but there is preference for the first over the latter. This predilection suggests that sign languages are isolating languages about the number category, differing typologically from oral languages. In addition, the number system in sign languages appears to be phonologically driven. The trial and quatral values can be expressed from the iconic plural, this is a process of replication in the singular form in the sign space, has a distinctive and punctual pause. Morphological strategies suggest an implicational hierarchy, with the use of mouthing as a rare strategy and reduplication with displacement as the most prevalent strategy. Another intramodal feature is the spatial arrangement of the referent, expressed in the number category. On the occasion, we present some methodological challenges of research and the importance of sign languages for linguistic typology.