On relativization and clefting : an analysis of Italian sign language / by Chiara Branchini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Branchini, Chiara, author.

Series:

Sign languages and deaf communities ; 5.

Sign languages and deaf communities, 2192-516X ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sign language.

Deaf people--Means of communication--Italy.

Deaf people.

Italian language--Relative clauses.

Italian language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Chiara Branchini, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy.

Summary:

This work is a contribution to our understanding of relativization strategies and clefting in Italian Sign Language, and more broadly, to our understanding of these constructions in world languages by setting the discussion on the theories that have been proposed in the literature of spoken languages to derive the syntactic phenomena object of investigation.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of figures

Notational conventions

Sign language acronyms

General Introduction

Part I: Introducing Italian Sign Language (LIS)

1. Italian Sign Language and the Italian Deaf community

2. A syntactic outline of Italian Sign Language (LIS)

Part II: On Relativization

3. Relativization strategies in spoken languages

4. Relative clauses in sign languages: A typological survey

5. Some methodological issues

6. An internally headed relative clause analysis for LIS relative structures

Part III: On Clefting

7. Clefting in spoken languages

8. An analysis of LIS cleft constructions

Conclusions

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 27, 2014).

ISBN:

1-5015-0004-X

1-5015-0000-7

OCLC:

979968892