B09 - Prominence in action: referent representation in German Sign Language (DGS)
This project investigates evidence for morphosyntactic prominence of arguments in German Sign Language (DGS), and the relationship between morphosyntactic prominence with prominence-lending semantic features like animacy and agentivity. By investigating the visual modality of a signed language, the project contributes to our understanding of the universality and variability of prominence relations across languages.
Team
Thiago Santos
Doctoral student B09
Office: Klosterstraße 79b, room 10E-Mail: tsouzasa(at)uni-koeln.dePhone: (+49) 221 470-76364
Antonia Dietrich
Student assistant B09
Office: Klosterstraße 79b, room 10E-Mail: adietri7(at)uni-koeln.dePhone: (+49) 221 470-76364
Niklas Hürster
Student assistant B09
Office: Klosterstraße 79b, room 12E-Mail: nhuerst1(at)uni-koeln.de
Publications
2025
- Souza Santos, Thiago de, Antonia Dietrich, Peggy Steinbach & Pamela Perniss. 2025. Differential Object Marking in DGS (German Sign Language): A prominence-based account of the use of PAM based on naturalistic data. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 10(1).
2024
- Mertz, Justine, Lena Pagel, Pamela Perniss, Giuseppina Turco & Doris Mücke. 2024. Coarticulation in sign language: A kinematic study on French Sign Language (LSF) using Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA). In Proceedings of the 13th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), 13-17 May, 2024, 51–54. Autrans en Vercors, France.