A Grammar of Turkish Sign Language (TİD)

1.3.1. Manual marking

Nouns can be preceded by indefinite determiners. Common indefinite determiners are one, one[ipsi_up],  some_1, some_2, and other [Lexicon, Section 3.6.2]. 

 

 

 

 

varıous book there_ıs. some_1 book ınterestıng some_1 book ınterestıng not. 

'There are various books. Some books are interesting. Some books are not interesting.'

 

Determiners can occur alone and function as indefinite pronouns with the meaning ‘someone’. They can be analyzed as modifying an unpronounced ‘person’. 

 

 

                        non-sp

 

phone other 1steal3

‘Someone has stolen my phone.’

 

Determiners can concatenate with signs meaning ‘person’ and function as indefinite pronouns. An example is one^person^c_person.

 

 

      

one person c_person

‘someone’

(recreated from Kelepir et al. 2018: 266

 

one^person^c_person doorbell press 

 

‘Someone is ringing the door.’        

(adapted from Kelepir et al. 2018: 266)  

 

See [Lexicon - Section 3.7.7] for other possible combinations.

 

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Meltem Kelepir

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© 2020 Kadir Gökgöz, Aslı Göksel, Demet Kayabaşı, Meltem Kelepir, Onur Keleş, Okan Kubus, Aslı Özkul, A. Sumru Özsoy, Burcu Saral, Hande Sevgi, Süleyman S. Taşçı

Bibliographical reference for citation

The entire grammar:
Kelepir, Meltem (ed.). 2020. A Grammar of Turkish Sign Language (TİD). 1st ed. (SIGN-HUB Sign Language Grammar Series). (https://thesignhub.eu/grammar/tid) (Accessed 31-10-2021)

A Chapter:
LastName, FirstName. 2020. Syntax: 3. Coordination and Subordination. In Kelepir, Meltem (ed.). 2020. A Grammar of Turkish Sign Language (TİD). 1st ed. (SIGN-HUB Sign Language Grammar Series), 230-237. (https://thesignhub.eu/grammar/tid) (Accessed 31-10-2021)

A Section:
LastName, FirstName. 2020. Phonology: 1.1.1.2. Finger configuration. In Kelepir, Meltem (ed.). 2020. A Grammar of Turkish Sign Language (TİD). 1st ed. (SIGN-HUB Sign Language Grammar Series), 230-237. (https://thesignhub.eu/grammar/tid) (Accessed 31-10-2021)

LastName, FirstName. 2020. Syntax: 3.1.2.1.3. Manual markers in disjunctive coordination. In Kelepir, Meltem (ed.). 2020. A Grammar of Turkish Sign Language (TİD). 1st ed. (SIGN-HUB Sign Language Grammar Series), 230-237. (https://thesignhub.eu/grammar/tid) (Accessed 31-10-2021)