STRUCTURE QUIZ - Session 3

Which is INCORRECT?

Topicalisation is a grammatical process which describes how information can be structured in utterances

There is a slight pause to mark the end of the topic

Auslan frequently uses a comment-topic structure where the comment of conversation is identified first, followed by the topic

Topicalisation refers to the process for highlighting which part of the sentence the speaker/signer wants to make prominent

What types of elements can be topicalised in Auslan?

a) Subject - can be identified by asking "who/what" in front of the verb (e.g. Who will eat tomorrow?)

b) Object - can be identifies by asking who/what after the verb (e.g. People eat what?)

c) Verb phrases

d) All of the above

e) a and b ONLY

What is the topic? "The caterpillar will become a butterfly tomorrow."

The caterpillar

a butterfly

tomorrow

will become

What is the topic? "Do you have the book you borrowed last week?"

Do you have

book

book you borrowed last week

last week

Yes-No and Wh- questions do not have to change in sign order, but the signed question usually has specific changes in non-manual signs

True

False

Doubling or repeating of some constituents...?

doesn't occur often in Auslan

involves repetition from the main part of the sentence and placing it at the end of the sentence

involves repetition from the main part of the sentence and placing it at the front of the sentence

is only used to add emphasis

Doubling structure:

a) repetition of auxiliary verbs

b) pronoun copy

c) repetition of content questions

all of the above

b and c ONLY

a and c ONLY

a and b ONLY

Often signers will include a pronoun that refers to the main subject, immediately at the end of the sentence. This is known as pronoun copy

True

False

"All the worms can go, they can," uses which doubling structure?

repetition of auxiliary verbs

pronoun copy

repetition of content questions

When is the gardener coming to mow the lawn?

GARDENER WHEN MOW LAWN WHEN

GARDENER MOW WHEN LAWN

GARDENER MOW LAWN WHEN

WHEN GARDEN MOW LAWN WHEN

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