On the morphological three-way pronominal distinction in signed languages: a face-based analysis
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This paper presents a proposal for the segmentation of the horizontal plane in Libras that takes the face only as the basis from which all the formal distinctions between the frontal and lateral areas are delimited. This study refuses previous proposals that predicted combined strategies between eye-gaze and space and the contribution of the torso to be responsible for the abovementioned distinction. The methodology encompasses the analysis of free utterances, role-shift sentences, coordination of pronouns and the creation of a task of pronouns identification in order to collect comprehension/perception data. The results confirm the existence of a formal distinction between frontal and lateral areas, and as a consequence, the distinction between the second and third-person in Libras, and perhaps in all existing sign languages. The space, therefore, would function as a finitely composed spatial morpheme and exhibit a clitic-like behavior when it is found attached to indicating signs in order to assign them different person values.
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