Schlenker’s paper presents a very stimulating wide-ranging assessment of the import of work in sign language semantics for the foundations of semantics and universal grammar. My comments here will focus on the role of iconicity in the semantics of sign languages, which is a central theme addressed in the paper. In Section 2, I discuss the distinction between categorical iconicity and gradient iconicity. In Sections 3–4, I offer some comments on Schlenker’s treatment of locus height and classifier predicates in the light of this distinction.

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手语的象似性和渐变效果

Schlenker的论文对手语语义中的作品的导入提出了非常令人兴奋的广泛评估，以评估语义和通用语法的基础。我在这里的评论将集中于手语在手语语义中的作用，这是本文所讨论的中心主题。在第2节中，我将讨论类别象似性和渐变象似性之间的区别。鉴于这种区别，在第3-4节中，我对Schlenker对轨迹高度和分类谓词的处理提供了一些意见。