Abstract Signed languages have been classified typologically as being manual dominant or non-manual dominant for negation. In the former negation is conveyed primarily by manual lexical signs whereas in the latter negation is primarily conveyed by nonmanual signs. In support of this typology, the site and spread of headshaking in negated clauses was also described as linguistically constrained. Headshaking was thus said to be a formal part of negation in signed languages so it was linguistic, not gestural. This paper aims to establish the role of headshaking in negation in Auslan with reference to this typology. In this corpus-based study, I show that Auslan users almost always negate clauses using a manual negative sign. Although headshakes are found in just over half of these manually negated clauses, the position and spreading behaviour of headshakes do not appear to be linguistically constrained. I also show that signers use headshakes as the sole negating element in a clause extremely rarely. I conclude that headshaking in Auslan appears similar to headshaking in the ambient face-to-face spoken language, English. I explore the implications of these findings for the proposed typology of negation in signed languages in terms of the type of data that were used to support it, and assumptions about the relationship between gesture and signed languages that underlie it.

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基于语料库的在澳大利亚手语中否定摇头作用的研究（手语类型的含义）

摘要手语在类型上被归类为否定的手动主导或非手动主导。在前一种情况中，否定主要通过人工词汇符号来传达，而在后一种情况中，否定主要通过非手动符号来传达。为了支持这种类型，在否定条款中摇头的位置和传播也被描述为在语言上受到限制。因此，摇晃被认为是手语中否定的正式部分，因此它是语言学的，而不是手势的。本文旨在参考这种类型来确定摇头作用在奥斯兰否定中的作用。在此基于语料库的研究中，我表明Auslan用户几乎总是使用手动负号来否定子句。尽管在这些手动否定的子句中超过一半发现了握手，握手的位置和传播行为在语言上似乎没有受到限制。我还表明签名者极少使用摇摇晃晃作为子句中唯一的否定元素。我得出的结论是，奥斯兰的握手似乎与周围面对面的口头英语（英语）握手类似。我将根据支持该数据的数据类型以及有关手势和构成手势语言的手势语言之间关系的假设，探讨这些发现对提议的手势语言否定类型学的意义。