TY  - CHAP
A1  - Kimmelmann, Vadim
T1  - Doubling in RSL and NGT : a pragmatic account0F*
N2  - In this paper, doubling in Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands is discussed. In both sign languages different constituents (including verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and whole clauses) can be doubled. It is shown that doubling in both languages has common functions and exhibits a similar structure, despite some differences. On this basis, a unified pragmatic explanation for many doubling phenomena on both the discourse and the clause-internal levels is provided, namely that the main function of doubling both in RSL and NGT is foregrounding of the doubled information.
KW  - Russian Sign Language
KW  - Sign Language of the Netherlands
KW  - doubling
KW  - Information Structure
KW  - foregrounding
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-66102
ER  -