Padden Interaction of Morphology and Syntax in American Sign Language

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-315-44966-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Library Edition: Syntax

This study, first published in 1988, examines cases of interaction of morphology and syntax in American Sign Language and proposes that clause structure and syntactic phenomena are not defined in terms of verb agreement or sign order, but in terms of grammatical relations. Using the framework of relational grammar developed by Perlmutter and Postal in which grammatical relations such as "subject", "direct object", etc. are taken as primitives of linguistic theory, facts about syntactic phenomena, including verb agreement and sign order are accounted for in a general way. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Padden, Carol A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notational Conventions; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Relational Grammar 2. Verb Classes 3. Embedded Structures 4. Predicates 5. Subjecthood 6. Verb Agreement 7. Classifiers and Indices; Appendices; References