Why to write grammars of emerging sign languages
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Grammatization, Emerging sign languages, Conventionalization, Institutionalized sign languagesAbstract
This article discusses the conceptions inherent to the processes of grammatization in emerging sign languages in relation to institutionalized sign languages. It is also discussed the case of some emerging sign languages and the discussion about variation and conventionalization in young languages and more consolidated sign languages. A reflection on the description, documentation and linguistic revitalization procedures suggested in the production of reference grammars of signed languages is applied to this study. Arguments are presented to theorize the concept of conventionalization based on Schmid's E-C Model (2020). As a result, it is shown that the grammatization of emerging sign languages in relation to the grammatization of institutionalized sign languages differs more by their glotopolitical and ideological aspects than by their linguistic ones.
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