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This page is intended as a comprehensive bibliography of pseudocoordination in sign languages; for discussion, see Section 2.2.3.7 of Ross (2021). If you have any feedback or additional references to suggest, please contact me.
Status
- Description status: minimal information
- Current bibliographic coverage: incomplete
- Total references: 2
- Last updated: December 2022, based on dissertation (Dec. 2021), Section 2.2.3.7
Summary
Pseudocoordination appears to be unattested in sign languages, likely because coordinators are usually optional and infrequent in sign languages (cf. Tang & Lau 2012, inter alia) so they would be unlikely to grammaticalize in multi-verb constructions, while serial verb constructions (without a coordinator) are common; see discussion in Ross (2021: Sections 2.2.3.7 & 4.2.5).
Primary references
Ross, Daniel. 2021. Pseudocoordination, Serial Verb Constructions and Multi-Verb Predicates: The relationship between form and structure. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Ph.D. dissertation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5546425 [Section 2.2.3.7]
Tang, Gladys & Prudence Lau. 2012. Coordination and subordination. In Roland Pfau, Markus Steinbach & Bencie Woll (eds.), Sign Language: An International Handbook, 340–365. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110261325.340