Lexical intensifiers in Kenyan Sign Language: Use, motivation, & etymology

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Sign languages use diverse strategies for marking degrees of intensity (e.g., ‘slightly cold’, ‘very cold’), with prosodic modifications and facial markers presumably being the most widely used strategies. In this study, part of a larger project documenting the lexicon of Kenyan Sign Language, we focus on another strategy for showing intensity in KSL: the use of individual words like ‘very’ that modify adjectives and adverbs. We find at least ten signs that are used in this way, and describe our initial findings of their usage, based on ~15hrs of online sessions between the three co-authors and structured elicitation with other deaf Kenyan signers.

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