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Author(s) -
Haviland John B.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
topics in cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.191
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1756-8765
pISSN - 1756-8757
DOI - 10.1111/tops.12126
Subject(s) - grammaticalization , utterance , gesture , sign language , linguistics , meaning (existential) , sign (mathematics) , generalization , psychology , american sign language , mathematics , philosophy , mathematical analysis , psychotherapist
Zinacantec Family Homesign (Z) is a new sign language emerging spontaneously over the past three decades in a single family in a remote Mayan Indian village. Three deaf siblings, their Tzotzil‐speaking age‐mates, and now their children, who have had contact with no other deaf people, represent the first generation of Z signers. I postulate an augmented grammaticalization path, beginning with the adoption of a Tzotzil cospeech holophrastic gesture—meaning “come!”—into Z, and then its apparent stylization as an attention‐getting sign, followed by grammatical regimentation and pragmatic generalization as an utterance initial change of speaker or turn marker.

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