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dc.contributor.authorLutalo-Kiingi, Sam
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-10T11:22:51Z
dc.date.available2022-03-10T11:22:51Z
dc.date.issued2014-04
dc.identifier.citationLutalo-Kiingi, Sam (2014) A descriptive grammar of morphosyntactic constructions in Ugandan sign language (ugsl)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://kyuspace.kyu.ac.ug/xmlui/handle/20.500.12504/840
dc.description.abstractThe Ugandan Deaf Community, consisting of approximately 25,000 sign language users, has seen significant developments in its recent history. Government recognition of sign language, establishment of schools for the deaf, and the beginnings of research into Ugandan Sign Language (UgSL) have been important milestones. While Deaf Ugandans are entering university level education for the first time, a number of challenges to the community remain. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the linguistic structures of UgSL in order to produce a description of the language's morphosyntax. There is a close relationship between word (or sign) properties and syntactic expressions, so UgSL is described here in terms of its morphosyntactic constructions, rather than a differentiation between morphological and syntactic features (cf. Croft 2001 ; Wilkinson 2013:260). While a substantial number of such descriptions exist for languages outside of Africa, this thesis is the first attempt at describing the morphosyntax of an African sign language. Many African sign languages are severely under-documented, and some are endangered. This study uses an inductive approach and a corpus-based methodology, examining how UgSL signers construct utterances of morphosyntactic complexity. The thesis is in three parts: part I is an introduction and overview of UgSL and also provides the theoretical and methodological background; part II provides a preliminary survey of UgSL grammar to provide a sider context for subsequent chapters; and part Ill is a detailed survey of five morphosyntactic domains of UgSL. The author is a native Deaf user of UgSL and a member of the Ugandan Deaf Community, as well as being fluent in several other sign languages and participating in international communities of Deaf people.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCentral Lancashire University (unpublished work)en_US
dc.subjectDescriptive grammar.en_US
dc.subjectMorphosyntactic constructions.en_US
dc.subjectUgandan Sign Language (UgSL).en_US
dc.titleA descriptive grammar of morphosyntactic constructions in Ugandan Sign Language (UgSL)en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US


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