Perniss / Pfau / Steinbach Visible Variation

Comparative Studies on Sign Language Structure
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019885-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 188, 413 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]ISSN

Autoren/Hrsg.

Perniss, Pamela M.

Pfau, Roland

Steinbach, Markus

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Zeichensprachen, Künstliche Sprachen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Table of contents;5
3;Notational conventions;7
4;Can’t you see the difference? Sources of variation in sign language structure;11
5;Occurrence of mouthings in American Sign Language: A preliminary study;45
6;Do all pronouns point? Indexicality of first person plural pronouns in BSL and ASL;73
7;Negation in Jordanian Sign Language: A cross-linguistic perspective;113
8;On the syntax of negation and modals in Catalan Sign Language and German Sign Language;139
9;‘Real data are messy’: Considering cross-linguistic analysis of constituent ordering in Auslan, VGT, and ISL;173
10;Cross-linguistic comparison of interrogatives in Croatian, Austrian, and American Sign Languages;217
11;The expression of modal meaning in German Sign Language and Irish Sign Language;255
12;Reported action in Nicaraguan and American Sign Languages: Emerging versus established systems;289
13;Grammaticalization of auxiliaries in sign languages;313
14;The possible range of variation between sign languages: Universal Grammar, modality, and typological aspects;351
15;Backmatter;395

Über Autor(innen)

Pamela M. Perniss, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Roland Pfau, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Markus Steinbach, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany.