中国手语关系从句篇章特征考察

The Textual Features of Relative Clauses in the Chinese Sign Language

目的探讨中国手语关系从旬结构在篇章中的使用情况。方法在语料中设置不同的指称对象，让被试用中国手语复述语料，进行语料转写，再对语料进行分析。结果手语者叙述故事，中心名词首现时，倾向于使用限制修饰；中心名词复现时。倾向于采用空间位置表达，即采用指点手势（位置基本固定）代替关系从句，或采用数字、直接命名等方式指称对象。结论手语者在篇章中能够使用关系从句结构，但使用频率较低。在不同类型关系从句的使用方面，手语者倾向于使用内置中心语关系从句，限定性关系从旬与非限定性关系从旬使用频率差别不大。此结论与其他国家手语、口语的相关研究一致。

Objectives To investigate the textual features of relative clauses in the Chinese sign language. Methods The objects of reference were set and the subjects repeated the objects in Chinese sign language.The sign language corpora were transferred into written language and then analyzed. Results The analysis of the corpora showed that sign language users often use relative clauses when telling a story. The subjects tended to define a head noun by a restrictive modifier when it first appeared in their narrations. However, some expressions of spatial location will be used more often to substitute the head noun when it reappeared, that is, the subjects used finger-pointing （a relatively fixed hand gesture） to substitute relative clauses or use digits and direct nomination to refer to the objects. Conclusion The sign language users can use relative clauses in the narrative texts but the frequency is relatively low. They tend to use head-internal relative clauses and the use frequencies of restrictive relative clauses and non-restrictive relative clauses show no significant difference.