Where do nouns come from? / edited by John B. Haviland, University of California, San Diego.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haviland, John Beard, editor.

Series:

Benjamins current topics ; Volume 70.

Benjamins Current Topics, 1874-0081 ; Volume 70

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speech and gesture--Study and teaching.

Speech and gesture.

Sign language--Study and teaching.

Sign language.

Gesture--Psychological aspects.

Gesture.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Noun.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Noun phrase.

Interpersonal communication--Psychological aspects.

Interpersonal communication.

Anthropological linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (146 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

All established languages, spoken or signed, make a distinction between nouns and verbs. Even a young sign language emerging within a family of deaf individuals has been found to mark the noun-verb distinction, and to use handshape type to do so. Here we ask whether handshape type is used to mark the noun-verb distinction in a gesture system invented by a deaf child who does not have access to a usable model of either spoken or signed language. The child produces homesigns that have linguistic structure, but receives from his hearing parents co-speech gestures that are structured differently f

Contents:

Where do nouns come from?; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; References; The noun-verb distinction in two young sign languages; Introduction; Distinguishing nouns and verbs; Ways to distinguish between nouns and verbs; Modality-specific characteristics of sign languages; Previous noun-verb studies in sign languages; Languages in our study; Methodology; Participants; Stimuli and procedure; Results; Discussion; Conclusion; References; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Patterned iconicity in sign language lexicons; Introduction

A different notion of iconicity in sign languagesMethod; Participants; Materials; Procedure; Coding; Results; Preferential patterning in hearing non-signing gesturers; Preferential patterning in a new sign language, Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language; Preferential patterning in an established sign language, American Sign Language; Preferential patterning in another established sign language, New Zealand Sign Language; Summary of results; Discussion; Conclusion; References; The emerging grammar of nouns in a first generation sign language; Words, things, and nouns; Zinacantec Family Homesign

Theoretical background: Nouns in homesignZ specifier-noun constructions; Descriptions of static scenes; Strategies of enactment; Specifier + Noun concatenations; Contrasting iconic strategies: phonological distinctions between nouns and verbs?; Handshapes and handling; Action and object in Z nouns; Inconsistent strategies; A grammaticalized locative/existential copula; From locative verb to copula?; Evidence from interaction: repair; Conclusion: A part-of-speech conspiracy?; Acknowledgements; References; How handshape type can distinguish between nouns and verbs in homesign; Methods

ParticipantCoding; Coding types of handshapes; Results; Types of gestures; Types of handshapes; Handshapes in nouns vs. verbs; Discussion; Using handshape type to distinguish nouns and verbs; Situating homesign within other languages in the manual modality; Conclusion; References; Subject index; Name index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027268501

9027268509

OCLC:

905668040