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Disjoined noun phrases may introduce disjunctive discourse referents. This is perhaps unsurprising, as disjunction can be seen as indefinite quantification over a domain of two individuals. Disjunction provides more flexibility in some respects than indefinites, though, as the two disjuncts may bear different morphological features, and a disjunctive discourse referent may have a split antecedent. Sign language has been shown to bear on arguments pertaining to discourse anaphora. Notably, discourse referents may be established at locations in the signing space (loci), closely paralleling the use of variables in dynamic semantics. This relation has been shown to be mediated by a “featural” layer, behaving similarly to phi-features like gender. Here, we compare several theories of disjunctive anaphora and of space in sign language with new data from French Sign Language (LSF).
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