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Initiatives & Projectsproject 25 -- Situation Construal, Viewpoint and ASL constructionsLCF 5: Situation Construal, Viewpoint and ASL constructions (Dudis):
Consider the sentence “She ran her Nikes threadbare.” It conflates two events—the “causing event” and the “resulting event”—in a single clause. Cause and result could be spoken of separately, e.g. “She has been running, and now her Nikes are threadbare.” However, these sentences are not precisely equivalent. The first example conflates cause and result, thereby presenting them as one event; the second one does not. We say that in these two examples the events have been differently construed. We are studying how ASL achieves different construals on a grammatical level. Of particular interest is the relationship between the constructions and the convention in which the signer “adopts” one of the available viewpoints pertaining to the event being depicted, e.g. agent, witness, or a non-participating viewer. Over the course of this four-year project, we expect that these studies of construal will provide stimuli for experiments that examine the relationships between sentence interlanguage mappings (for example, ILM 4). Related Initiatives:
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