Abstract The expression of standard negation by means of manual and/or non-manual markers has been described for a considerable number of sign languages. Typological comparisons have revealed an intriguing dichotomy: while some sign languages require a manual negative element in negative clauses (manual-dominant sign languages), in others negation can be realized by a non-manual marker alone (in particular a headshake; non-manual-dominant sign languages). We are here adding data from Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT) to the picture, and we demonstrate that NGT belongs to the latter group. Still, detailed comparison suggests that NGT patterns differently from other non-manual-dominant sign languages, thereby improving our understanding of the typological variation in this domain. A novel contribution of the present study is that it is based on naturalistic corpus data, showing more variation than often found in elicitation and grammaticality judgment studies of sign languages, but also presenting new problems of interpretation.

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不签名（或不签名）：荷兰手语中标准否定的类型学视角

摘要已经针对相当多的手语描述了通过手动和/或非手动标记来表达标准否定的方法。类型学的比较揭示了一个有趣的二分法：虽然某些手语需要在否定条款中使用手动否定元素（手动主导手语），但在另一些情况下，可以仅通过非手动标记（尤其是握手；非手动）来实现否定-主要手语）。我们在这里将来自荷兰手语（NGT）的数据添加到图片中，并证明NGT属于后者。不过，详细的比较表明，NGT模式不同于其他非手动主导的手语，从而提高了我们对这一领域类型变异的理解。