A matter of complexity : : subordination in sign languages / / edited by Roland Pfau, Markus Steinbach, Annika Herrmann.
Since natural languages exist in two different modalities – the visual-gestural modality of sign languages and the auditory-oral modality of spoken languages – it is obvious that all fields of research in modern linguistics will benefit from research on sign languages. Although previous studies have...
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| Superior document: | Sign languages and deaf communities ; 6 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton,, [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sign languages and deaf communities ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Notational conventions and sign language acronyms
- Complex sentences in sign languages : modality, typology, discourse / Roland Pfau & Markus Steinbach
- Preference for clause order in complex sentences with adverbial clauses in American sign language / Ronnie B. Wilbur
- Observations on clausal complementation in Turkish sign language / Asli Göksel & Meltem Kelepir
- An in-depth tour into sentential complementation in Italian sign language / Carlo Geraci & Valentina Aristodemo
- Embedding polar interrogative clauses in American sign language / Kathryn Davidson & Ivano Caponigro
- Relativization in Italian sign language : the missing link of relativization / Carlo Cecchetto & Caterina Donati
- Reporting with and without role shift: sign language strategies of complementation / Josep Quer
- An annotation scheme to investigate the form and function of hand dominance in the corpus NGT / Onno Crasborn & Anna Sáfár
- Language index
- Subject index
- List of contributors.