A Grammar of Turkish Sign Language (TİD)

2.2.1. Agreement

TİD has spatial verbal agreement [Morphology - Chapter 3]. Agreement verbs change their direction of movement and sometimes hand orientation. In this way certain spatial loci are associated with arguments (agent, patient, etc. [Semantics - Chapter 6]). Generally, the referents are assigned distinct loci in the beginning of discourse. In the following utterance, the referents boy and girl are signed in different locations first. Then, they are inferred from the initial and final locations of the verb.

 



boy
a ıxa girlb ıxb book  agiveb

‘The boy gave the book to the girl’

 

While agreement verbs generally denote agent and patient, spatial verbs agree with topographic information, source and goal [Morphology - Chapter 3 and Lexicon - Section 3.2.3.].

         

 

 

schoola ıxa homeb awalkb

‘I walked from school to home’

List of editors

Meltem Kelepir

Copyright info

© 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)