El orden de los constituyentes en los enunciados declarativos de la Lengua de Signos Española (LSE). Una perspectiva funcionalista

• Autores: Esperanza Morales López , César Reigosa Varela, Nancy Bobillo García
• Localización: Anuari de Filologia. Estudis de Lingüística, ISSN-e 2014-1408, Nº. 2, 2012, págs. 77-121
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen
  • español

    Nuestro propósito en este trabajo es investigar el orden de los constituyentes en los enunciados declarativos de la lengua de signos española (LSE), desde una perspectiva funcionalista; con especial atención a la estructura informativa de tales enunciados, dado que en la organización enunciativa de algunas de las lenguas de signos investigadas hasta el momento, se observa un papel predominante del componente informativo.

    Las conclusiones del estudio indican que en la organización de la cadena signada son posibles los tres órdenes siguientes: SOV, SVO, y topicalización del objeto y de la localización espacio-temporal. La estructura de tópico se presenta como un elemento externalizado en el inicio del enunciado y con un valor gramaticalizado. Estos órdenes pueden cambiar si el signante sitúa a los participantes en distintos locus del espacio signado. El otro elemento del componente informativo, el foco, tiene un valor enfático (foco informativo y foco contrastivo) y se expresa por medio de una estructura bimembre de dos tipos: a) una estructura dividida de pregunta-respuesta y b) una estructura cuyo elemento inicial indica sorpresa y, a continuación, el elemento focalizado.

    El artículo concluye con una reflexión del papel predominante que tiene, en la organización de la estructura enunciativa de esta lengua (y en general en

  • English

    The aim of this paper is to address the issue of word order in declarative utterances in Spanish Sign Language, with special attention to the informative component (topic and focus), given that research carried out to date in certain signed languages has revealed that this component plays a key role in utterance organisation.

    The results of our study indicate that the following three word order options are possible: SOV, SVO and topicalisation of object and space-setting (at the beginning of the utterance as a grammaticalised component). These orders may vary if the signer adopts a spatial organisation of events. As for the other item of the informative element, the focus, it has an emphatic value (information and contrastive focus) and is expressed by means of two types of binary structures: a) a divided question-answer structure, and b) a structure whose initial element expresses surprise, followed by the focalised element.

    The paper concludes with a reflection of the predominant role of the informational component, as well as other pragmatic phenomena, in organizing utterance structure in this language, and in sign languages in general

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