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      A Usage-Based Proposal for Argument Structure of Directional Verbs in American Sign Language

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          Verb agreement in signed languages has received substantial attention for a long time. Despite the numerous analyses about the linguistic status of verb agreement, there is little discussion about the argument structure associated with “directional verbs,” also known as agreeing/agreement or indicating verbs. This paper proposes a usage-based approach for analyzing argument structure constructions of directional verbs in American Sign Language (ASL). The proposal offers low-level constructions for reported speech, non-dedicated passive and reflexive, and stance verb constructions, which capture the patterns, abstracted from recurring usage events, that are part of users’ linguistic knowledge. The approach has potential to push the field of sign linguistics in new directions of understanding the interplay of language use and structure.

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                Journal
                Front Psychol
                Front Psychol
                Front. Psychol.
                Frontiers in Psychology
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                1664-1078
                17 May 2022
                2022
                : 13
                : 808493
                Affiliations
                Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara , Santa Barbara, CA, United States
                Author notes

                Edited by: Brigitte Garcia, UMR 7023 Structures formelles du langage, France

                Reviewed by: Vadim Kimmelman, University of Bergen, Norway; Sherman Wilcox, University of New Mexico, United States; Trevor Johnston, Macquarie University, Australia

                *Correspondence: Lynn Hou, lhou@ 123456linguistics.ucsb.edu

                This article was submitted to Language Sciences, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology

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                10.3389/fpsyg.2022.808493
                9157181
                45164d7d-f2ac-430a-98df-8c2f70036391
                Copyright © 2022 Hou.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

                History
                : 03 November 2021
                : 10 February 2022
                Page count
                Figures: 8, Tables: 7, Equations: 0, References: 113, Pages: 17, Words: 14720
                Categories
                Psychology
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                Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                verb agreement,argument structure,usage-based linguistics,construction grammar,american sign language

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