Signs and structures : formal approaches to sign language syntax / edited by Pawel Rutkowski, University of Warsaw.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rutkowski, Paweł, editor.

Series:

Benjamins current topics ; Volume 71.

Benjamins Current Topics, 1874-0081 ; Volume 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sign language--Syntax.

Sign language.

Sign language--Grammaticalization.

Gesture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (149 pages) : illustrations, table (some color), photographs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As sign language linguistics has become an important and prodigious field of research in the last few decades, it comes as no surprise that the repertoire of methodological approaches to the study of the communication of the Deaf has also expanded considerably. While earlier work on sign languages was often focused on providing arguments for them being full-fledged linguistic systems, current debates do no longer center on whether visual-spatial grammars are worth being researched, but on how this type of research should be conducted. This book contains a selection of papers that could be thought of as a good representative sample of current trends in formal approaches to the study of sign language syntax. It illustrates how generative research on the communication of the Deaf may contribute to our understanding of the syntax of natural languages in general and indicates to what extent it is possible to integrate advances in the analysis of visual-spatial grammar with current spoken language research.Originally published in Sign Language & Linguistics 16:2 (2013).

Contents:

Getting together a posse: The primacy of predication in ASL possessives / Natasha Abner

Wh-duplication in Italian Sign Language / Chiara Branchinia, Anna Cardinalettia, Carlo Cecchettob, Caterina

Donatic, and Carlo Geracid

Person climbing up a tree (and other adventures in sign language

Grammaticalization) / Roland Pfau and Markus Steinbach

The point of agreement: Changing how we think about sign language gesture, and agreement / Ronnie B. Wilbur.

Notes:

Warsaw FEAST (Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory) conference held on June 1-2, 2012; University of Warsaw, Poland.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027268495

9027268495

OCLC:

906028021