A Grammar of Italian Sign Language (LIS).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Branchini, Chiara.

Series:

Lingue Dei Segni e Sordità Series

Lingue Dei Segni e Sordità Series ; v.1

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Italian Sign Language.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (831 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Grammar of Italian Sign Language

Place of Publication:

Venice, Italy : Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Digital Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

This work is a comprehensive grammar of Italian Sign Language (LIS), designed as a resource for students, teachers, interpreters, researchers, and the Deaf community. It is part of the Horizon 2020 SIGN-HUB project and follows the SignGram Blueprint, a guide for documenting sign language grammars. The book covers the historical, social, and linguistic aspects of LIS, including phonology, lexicon, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics. It aims to address the lack of detailed grammatical resources for LIS, supporting education, research, and the development of diagnostic tools for language assessment. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Intro

Benjamin Laker

363The Political Implications of COVID-19

What Now for Populism?

Daphne Halikiopoulou

15Introduction

21List of abbreviations

23List of conventions

27Part ISocio-Historical Background

291 History

412 The sign language community

2.1 Community characteristics

2.2 Sign language users

2.3 Deaf culture

2.4 Deaf education

693 Status

3.1 Current legislation

3.2 Language policy

3.3 Language attitudes

874 Linguistic study

4.1 Grammatical description

4.2 Lexicographic work

4.3 Corpora

4.4 Sociolinguistic variation

105Part IIPhonology

1071 Sublexical structure

1.1 Active articulators

1.2 Location

1.3 Movement

1.4 Two-handed signs

1.5 Non-manuals

1692 Prosody

2.1 The lexical level

2.2 Above the lexical level

2.3 Intonation

2.4 Interaction

1853 Phonological processes

3.1 Processes affecting the phonemic level

3.2 Processes affecting the syllable

3.3 Processes affecting the prosodic word

3.4 Processes affecting higher prosodic units

Part III Lexicon

2151 The native lexicon

1.1 Core lexicon

1.2 Non-core lexicon

1.3 Interaction between core and non-core lexicon

2412 The non-native lexicon

2.1 Borrowings from other sign languages

2.2 Borrowings from (neighboring) spoken language

2.3 Borrowings from conventionalised gestures

2633 Parts of speech

3.1 Nouns

3.2 Verbs

3.3 Lexical expressions of inflectional categories

3.4 Adjectives

3.5 Adverbials

3.6 Determiners

3.7 Pronouns

3.9 Conjunctions

Part IVMorphology

3551 Compounding

1.1 Native compounds

1.2 Loan compounds

1.3 Compounds with fingerspelled components

3732 Derivation

2.1 Manual markers of derivation

2.2 Non-manual markers of derivation

3933 Verbal inflection

3.1 Agreement

3.2 Tense.

3.3 Aspect

3.4 Modality

3.5 Negation

4234 Nominal inflection

4.1 Number

4.2 Localisation and distribution

4315 Classifiers

5.1 Predicate classifiers

5.2 Size-and-Shape Specifiers (SASS)

Part VSyntax

4671 Sentence types

1.1 Declaratives

1.2 Interrogatives

1.3 Imperatives

1.4 Exclamatives

1.5 Negatives

5052 Clause structure

2.1 The syntactic realization of argument structure

2.2 Grammatical functions

2.3 Word order

2.4 Null arguments

2.5 Clausal ellipsis

2.6 Pronoun copying

5713 Coordination and subordination

3.1 Coordination of clauses

3.2 Subordination: distinctive properties

3.3 Argument clauses

3.4 Relative clauses

3.5 Adverbial clauses

3.6 Comparative clauses

3.7 Comparative correlatives

6474 The noun phrase

4.1 Determiners

4.2 Possessive phrases

4.3 Numerals

4.4 Quantifiers

4.5 Adjectives

4.6 Multiple noun phrase constituents

6755 The structure of adjectival phrase

5.1 Intensifiers and other modifiers

5.2 Arguments

5.3 Adjuncts

Part VIPragmatics

6891 Reference

1.1 Deixis

1.2 Definiteness

1.3 Indefiniteness

1.4 Specificity

1.5 Impersonal reference

7032 Reference tracking

2.1 Pronouns

2.2 Other means

7113 Speech acts

3.1 Assertions

3.2 Questions

3.3 Commands and requests

7134 Information structure

4.1 Focus

4.2 Topic

4.3 Morphological and prosodic markers of topic and focus

7275 Discourse structure

5.1 Coherence and discourse markers

5.2 Cohesion

5.3 Foregrounding and backgrounding

7416 Reporting and role shift

6.1 Attitude role shift and (in)direct speech

6.2 Action role shift

7437 Expressive meaning

7.1 Conversational implicature

7.2 Conventional implicature

7.3 Presupposition

7478 Signing space

8.1 Uses of signing space.

8.2 Temporal expressions

8.3 Perspective

7599 Figurative meaning

9.1 Metaphor

9.2 Metonymy

76910 Communicative interaction

10.1 Discourse markers

10.2 Turn taking

10.3 Back-channeling

10.4 Repairs

77911 Register and politeness

11.1 Register

11.2 Politeness

787Appendix: List of handshapes

789Complete list of references

801Glossary of grammatical terms

827List of authors

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ISBN:

88-6969-474-7

OCLC:

1611793045