A phonological grammar of Kenyan sign language / Hope E. Morgan.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Morgan, Hope E., author.

Series:

Sign Language Typology [SLT]

Sign Language Typology, 2192-5186 ; Volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African languages.

Sign language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (636 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

The series is dedicated to the comparative study of sign languages around the world. Individual or collective works that systematically explore typological variation across sign languages are the focus of this series, with particular emphasis on undocumented, underdescribed and endangered sign languages. The scope of the series primarily includes cross-linguistic studies of grammatical domains across a larger or smaller sample of sign languages, but also encompasses the study of individual sign languages from a typological perspective and comparison between signed and spoken languages in terms of language modality, as well as theoretical and methodological contributions to sign language typology.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

1 Introduction and Background of Kenyan Sign Language

2 Methodology

3 Minimal pairs and the phonological analysis

4 Handshape

5 Location

6 Core Articulatory Movements

7 Manner of Movement

8 Other distinctive features and characteristics of KSL signs

9 Conclusion and future directions

Appendix 1: Fields in the KSL Lexical Database

Appendix 2: Representation of phonological structure in three models

Appendix 3: Inventory of KSL Handshapes

Appendix 4: Chart of Handshape minimal pair contrasts

Appendix 5: Fingerspelling Alphabet in KSL (southwestern Kenya)

Appendix 6: Motivated handshapes in KSL

Appendix 7: Phonetic Locations in KSL Database

Appendix 8: Chart of Location minimal pair contrasts

Appendix 9: Inventory of KSL Locations

References

Index

Notes:

2017 U of California San Diego Diss.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-11-076569-1