Michele Brunelli’s scientific contributions

... The modality-specific properties we addressed here -existence of verb classes and backwards verbs, optionality of agreement, and priority of object over subject marking -raise the question whether SL agreement is actually a syntactic phenomenon akin to spoken language agreement. The debate is still ongoing, with proposals ranging from accounts that assign an important role to an interface with gesture (Liddell 2003;Fenlon et al. 2018;Schembri et al. 2018) to modalityindependent syntactic accounts (Brunelli 2011;Pfau et al. 2018;Oomen 2020). In addition, there are hybrid approaches which argue for an interaction between syntactic and semantic components (Meir 2002;Bos 2017Bos [1998), as well as an analysis that argues for the cliticization of pronominal pointing (Nevins 2011). ...

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Subject agreement in control and modal constructions in Russian Sign Language: Implications for the hierarchy of person features