Perspectives On Classifier Constructions In Sign Languages

Author : Karen Emmorey
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135632953

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Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages by Karen Emmorey Pdf

Classifier constructions are universal to sign languages and exhibit unique properties that arise from the nature of the visual-gestural modality. The major goals are to bring to light critical issues related to the study of classifier constructions and to present state-of-the-art linguistic and psycholinguistic analyses of these constructions. It is hoped that by doing so, more researchers will be inspired to investigate the nature of classifier constructions across signed languages and further explore the unique aspects of these forms. The papers in this volume discuss the following issues: *how sign language classifiers differ from spoken languages; *cross-linguistic variation in sign language classifier systems; *the role of gesture; *the nature of morpho-syntactic and phonological constraints on classifier constructions; *the grammaticization process for these forms; and *the acquisition of classifier forms. Divided into four parts, groups of papers focus on a particular set of issues, and commentary papers end each section.

Author : Karen Emmorey
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135632960

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Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages by Karen Emmorey Pdf

This text is the result of work discussed and presented at the Workshop on Classifier Constructions. It aims to bring to light issues related to the study of classifier constructions and to present contemporary linguistic and psycholinguistic analyses of these constructions.

Author : Myriam Vermeerbergen,Lorraine Leeson,Onno A. Crasborn
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027292957

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Simultaneity in Signed Languages by Myriam Vermeerbergen,Lorraine Leeson,Onno A. Crasborn Pdf

Signed language users can draw on a range of articulators when expressing linguistic messages, including the hands, torso, eye gaze, and mouth. Sometimes these articulators work in tandem to produce one lexical item while in other instances they operate to convey different types of information simultaneously. Over the past fifteen years, there has been a growing interest in the issue of simultaneity in signed languages. However, this book is the first to offer a comprehensive treatment of this topic, presenting a collection of papers dealing with different aspects of simultaneity in a range of related and unrelated signed languages, in descriptive and cross-linguistic treatments which are set in different theoretical frameworks. This volume has relevance for those interested in sign linguistics, in teaching and learning signed languages, and is also highly recommended to anyone interested in the fundamental underpinnings of human language and the effects of signed versus spoken modality.

Author : Myriam Vermeerbergen,Lorraine Leeson,Onno Alex Crasborn
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902724796X

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Simultaneity in Signed Languages by Myriam Vermeerbergen,Lorraine Leeson,Onno Alex Crasborn Pdf

Signed language users can draw on a range of articulators when expressing linguistic messages, including the hands, torso, eye gaze, and mouth. Sometimes these articulators work in tandem to produce one lexical item while in other instances they operate to convey different types of information simultaneously. Over the past fifteen years, there has been a growing interest in the issue of simultaneity in signed languages. However, this book is the first to offer a comprehensive treatment of this topic, presenting a collection of papers dealing with different aspects of simultaneity in a range of related and unrelated signed languages, in descriptive and cross-linguistic treatments which are set in different theoretical frameworks. This volume has relevance for those interested in sign linguistics, in teaching and learning signed languages, and is also highly recommended to anyone interested in the fundamental underpinnings of human language and the effects of signed versus spoken modality.

Author : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015050314676

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Classifiers by Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd Pdf

This text offers a cross-linguistic account of classifiers. Its range of exemplification includes major and minor languages from every continent and several of the examples are from the author's own fieldwork.

Author : Josep Quer,Roland Pfau,Annika Herrmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317624271

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The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research by Josep Quer,Roland Pfau,Annika Herrmann Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research bridges the divide between theoretical and experimental approaches to provide an up-to-date survey of key topics in sign language research. With 29 chapters written by leading and emerging scholars from around the world, this Handbook covers the following key areas: On the theoretical side, all crucial aspects of sign language grammar studied within formal frameworks such as Generative Grammar; On the experimental side, theoretical accounts are supplemented by experimental evidence gained in psycho- and neurolinguistic studies; On the descriptive side, the main phenomena addressed in the reviewed scholarship are summarized in a way that is accessible to readers without previous knowledge of sign languages. Each chapter features an introduction, an overview of existing research, and a critical assessment of hypotheses and findings. The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research is key reading for all advanced students and researchers working at the intersection of sign language research, linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics.

Author : Trevor Johnston,Adam Schembri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139459635

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Australian Sign Language (Auslan) by Trevor Johnston,Adam Schembri Pdf

This is first comprehensive introduction to the linguistics of Auslan, the sign language of Australia. Assuming no prior background in language study, it explores each key aspect of the structure of Auslan, providing an accessible overview of its grammar (how sentences are structured), phonology (the building blocks of signs), morphology (the structure of signs), lexicon (vocabulary), semantics (how meaning is created), and discourse (how Auslan is used in context). The authors also discuss a range of myths and misunderstandings about sign languages, provide an insight into the history and development of Auslan, and show how Auslan is related to other sign languages, such as those used in Britain, the USA and New Zealand. Complete with clear illustrations of the signs in use and useful further reading lists, this is an ideal resource for anyone interested in Auslan, as well as those seeking a clear, general introduction to sign language linguistics.

Author : Virginia Volterra,Maria Roccaforte,Alessio Di Renzo,Sabina Fontana
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257840

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Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective by Virginia Volterra,Maria Roccaforte,Alessio Di Renzo,Sabina Fontana Pdf

This volume reveals new insights on the faculty of language. By proposing a new approach in the analysis and description of Italian Sign Language (LIS), that can be extended also to other sign languages, this book also enlightens some aspects of spoken languages, which were often overlooked in the past and only recently have been brought to the fore and described. First, the study of face-to-face communication leads to a revision of the traditional dichotomy between linguistic and enacted, to develop a new approach to embodied language (Kendon, 2004). Second, all structures of language take on a sociolinguistic and pragmatic meaning, as proposed by cognitive semantics, which considers it impossible to trace a separation between purely linguistic and extralinguistic knowledge. Finally, if speech from the point of view of its materiality is variable, fragile, and non-segmentable (i.e. not systematically discrete), also signs are not always segmentable into discrete, invariable and meaningless units. This then calls into question some of the properties traditionally associated with human languages in general, notably that of ‘duality of patterning’. These are only some of the main issues you will find in this volume that has no parallel both in sign and in spoken languages linguistic research.

Author : Valentina Cuccio,Erin Wilkinson,Brigitte Garcia,Adam Schembri,Erin Moriarty,Sabina Fontana
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832505342

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Sign Language Research Sixty Years Later: Current and Future Perspectives by Valentina Cuccio,Erin Wilkinson,Brigitte Garcia,Adam Schembri,Erin Moriarty,Sabina Fontana Pdf

Author : Annika Hübl,Markus Steinbach
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263988

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Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages by Annika Hübl,Markus Steinbach Pdf

In recent years, the focus of linguistic research has shifted from sentence to larger units such as text and discourse and accordingly from syntax to semantics and pragmatics. This has led to the development and application of corresponding discourse semantic and pragmatic theories such as, for instance, (S)DRT, Centering Theory, Accessibility Theory, QUD, Generalized Conversational Implicatures, Super Monsters and Gesture Semantics and new empirical approaches in the framework of experimental semantics and pragmatics or corpus linguistic discourse analysis. The contributions to this collected volume build on these developments and investigate the linguistic foundations of narration from various perspectives. The contributions address topics such as speech and thought representation, free indirect speech, information structure, anaphora resolution, co-speech gestures, classifier constructions as well as role shift and constructed action. The volume provides new insights in the linguistic structures underlying narration in written, spoken, and sign languages from an experimental, developmental, historical, typological, and theoretical perspective. The contributions will appeal to theoretical linguists, sign language linguists, typologists, literary scholars, psycholinguists, and philosophers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780080877754

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Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World by Anonim Pdf

Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World is an authoritative single-volume reference resource comprehensively describing the major languages and language families of the world. It will provide full descriptions of the phonology, semantics, morphology, and syntax of the world’s major languages, giving insights into their structure, history and development, sounds, meaning, structure, and language family, thereby both highlighting their diversity for comparative study, and contextualizing them according to their genetic relationships and regional distribution. Based on the highly acclaimed and award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, this volume will provide an edited collection of almost 400 articles throughout which a representative subset of the world's major languages are unfolded and explained in up-to-date terminology and authoritative interpretation, by the leading scholars in linguistics. In highlighting the diversity of the world’s languages — from the thriving to the endangered and extinct — this work will be the first point of call to any language expert interested in this huge area. No other single volume will match the extent of language coverage or the authority of the contributors of Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World. * Extraordinary breadth of coverage: a comprehensive selection of just under 400 articles covering the world's major languages, language families, and classification structures, issues and disputes * Peerless quality: based on 20 years of academic development on two editions of the leading reference resource in linguistics, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics * Unique authorship: 350 of the world's leading experts brought together for one purpose * Exceptional editorial selection, review and validation process: Keith Brown and Sarah Ogilvie act as first-tier guarantors for article quality and coverage * Compact and affordable: one-volume format makes this suitable for personal study at any institution interested in areal, descriptive, or comparative language study - and at a fraction of the cost of the full encyclopedia

Author : Professor of Speech Language and Hearing Science Brenda Schick
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780195180947

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Advances in the Sign Language Development of Deaf Children by Professor of Speech Language and Hearing Science Brenda Schick Pdf

The authors provide cogent summaries of what is known about early gestural development, interactive processes adapted to visual communication, & the processes of semantic, syntactic, & pragmatic development in sign.

Author : Roland Pfau,Markus Steinbach,Bencie Woll
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110261325

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Sign Language by Roland Pfau,Markus Steinbach,Bencie Woll Pdf

Sign language linguists show here that all questions relevant to the linguistic investigation of spoken languages can be asked about sign languages. Conversely, questions that sign language linguists consider - even if spoken language researchers have not asked them yet - should also be asked of spoken languages. The HSK handbook Sign Language aims to provide a concise and comprehensive overview of the state of the art in sign language linguistics. It includes 44 chapters, written by leading researchers in the field, that address issues in language typology, sign language grammar, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, and language documentation and transcription. Crucially, all topics are presented in a way that makes them accessible to linguists who are not familiar with sign language linguistics.

Author : Elena Fornasiero
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110783445

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Evaluative Constructions in Italian Sign Language (LIS) by Elena Fornasiero Pdf

The domain of evaluative morphology is vast and complex, as it requires the combination of morphological, semantic and pragmatic information to be understood. Nevertheless, cross-linguistic studies on spoken languages show that languages share some patterns in the way they encode evaluative features. It follows that investigating evaluative morphology in sign languages (SLs) can enrich the literature and offer new insights. This book provides descriptive and theoretical contributions by considering Italian Sign Language (LIS) as empirical ground of investigation. At the descriptive level, the analysis of corpus and elicited data improves the description of morphological processes in LIS, as well as typological studies on evaluative morphology by adding the patterns of a visuo-gestural language. At the theoretical level, the study shows the benefit of combining different approaches (Generative Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, Cognitive Linguistics) for the exploration of evaluative constructions in SLs, as it allows to identify both modality-specific and modality-independent properties. In sum, this book encourages the readers to rely on different data types, analyses and theoretical perspectives to investigate linguistic phenomena in SLs.

Author : Ray Fabri
Publisher : Brockmeyer Verlag
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Maltese language
ISBN : 9783819607349

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Maltese Linguistics by Ray Fabri Pdf