Agrammatic aphasia : a cross-language narrative sourcebook / edited by Lise Menn, Loraine K. Obler ; in association with Gabriele Miceli ; editorial associate, M. O'Connor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Menn, Lise.

Obler, Loraine K.

Miceli, Gabriele.

O'Connor, Mr. (M.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agrammatism.

Aphasia.

Physical Description:

3 v. in 1 (xxvii, 1985 p.) : ill.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This major reference work fills a need long recognized in neurolinguistics: a source for analyzable speech transcripts from agrammatic aphasic patients that provides detailed grammatical descriptions and distributional analyses. This 3-volume set is unique in that it presents narrative speech from carefully selected clinically comparable patients, speakers of 14 languages, and parallel narratives by normal speakers. For each of the 14 languages there is a case presentation chapter analyzing and discussing the language of agrammatic patients, followed by primary data, which are organized as follows: running text of speech by two patients; interlinear morphemic translations of those texts; running text of speech elicited from two normal control subjects (plus interlinear translations); tables and figures analyzing distributional properties of the patients' speech; results of comprehension tests of the patients; transcriptions of patients' oral reading and writing samples. Neurological information is included with the case presentations, and a short grammatical sketch of each language is added to make the work on all languages accessible even to those who only read English. Language findings are presented for English, Dutch, German, Icelandic, Swedish, French, Italian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Hindi, Finnish, Hebrew, Chinese and Japanese.The book is an indispensable reference work for all linguists, psycholinguists and neurolinguists who wish to test their theories against a massive body of data.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Contributors and affiliation

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Preface

I. Orientation

Chapter 1. Theoretical motivations for the cross-language study of agrammatism

Chapter 2. Methodology: Data collection, presentation, and guide to interpretation

Chapter 3. CT-Scan correlates of agrammatism

II. Language findings and data

Chapter 4. Agrammatism in English: Two case studies

Chapter 5. Agrammatism in Dutch: Two case studies

Chapter 6. Agrammatism in German: Two case studies

Chapter 7. Agrammatism in Icelandic: Two case studies

Chapter 8. Agrammatism in Swedish: Two case studies

Chapter 9. Agrammatism in French: Two case studies

Chapter 10. Agrammatism in Italian: Two case studies

Chapter 11. Agrammatism in Polish: A case study

Chapter 12. Agrammatism in Serbo-Croatian: Two case studies

Chapter 13. Agrammatism in Hindi: A case study

Chapter 14. Agrammatism in Finnish: Two case studies

Chapter 15. Agrammatism in Hebrew: Two case studies

Chapter 16. Agrammatism in Chinese: A case study

Chapter 17. Agrammatism in Japanese: Two case studies

Chapter 17A. Crossed agrammatism in Japanese: A case study

III. Language comparisons and conclusions

Chapter 18. Word order in the Germanic Languages — Subject-verb or verb second?: Evidence from aphasia in Scandinavian languages

Chapter 19. Inferences from cross-modal comparisons of agrammatism

Chapter 20. Cross-language data and theories of agrammatism

Supplement to Chapter 4. English-language materials

Supplement to Chapter 5. Dutch-language materials

Supplement to Chapter 6. German-language materials

Supplement to Chapter 7. Icelandic-language materials

Supplement to Chapter 8. Swedish-language materials

Supplement to Chapter 9. French-language materials

Supplement to Chapter 10. Italian-language materials

Supplement to Chapter 11. Polish-language materials

Supplement to Chapter 12. Serbo-Croatian materials

Supplement to chapler 13. Hindi materials

Supplement to Chapter 14. Finnish-language materials

Supplement to Chapter 15. Hebrew materials

Supplement to Chapter 16. Chinese-language materials

Supplement to Chapter 17. Japanese-language materials

Supplement to Chapter 17A. Japanese-language materials appendix

References

Index of subjects

Index of authorities

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-54899-2

9786613861443

90-272-7351-0