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A study in terms of reduplication in Korean Sign Language

  • Korean Language and Literature
  • 2019, 72(72), pp.29-59
  • DOI : 10.23016/kllj.2019.72.72.29
  • Publisher : 국어문학회
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Received : October 31, 2019
  • Accepted : November 20, 2019
  • Published : November 30, 2019

Lee, Youngjae 1

1전주선화학교

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ABSTRACT

Korean Sign Language is a language used by Deaf who are active inthe deaf community in Korea. Sign Language has a grammatical systemunique to sign language and is a grammatical system that can not beseen in other spoken languages. One of them is the reduplicationgrammar. The reduplication is used throughout whole grammar in case ofsign language. There are a noun-verb pair, reduplication of nouns and verbs andsome other reduplication in reduplication of Korean Sign Language. Anoun-verb pair is a pair that is distinguished by whether it is a singlereduplication or a double reduplication without changing the conditionsthat make up the sign language. The reduplication of nouns refers toreduplication which becomes a plural form of the noun by repeating anoun becoming sign language twice or more times. The reduplication ofa verb is a reduplication that is repeated several times as the verb ismoved sideways. The other reduplication refer to repetitions which havedifferent meanings altered in sign language’s original meaning.

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