East Asian Sign Linguistics / / ed. by Kazumi Matsuoka, Onno Crasborn, Marie Coppola.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Byun, Kang-Suk,; Coppola, Marie,; Crasborn, Onno,; Gu, Shengyun,; He, Jia,; Hofer, Theresia,; Hong, Sung-Eun,; Lee, Eun-Young,; Lee, Helen,; Lee, Hyunhwa,; Maegawa, Kazumi,; Matsuoka, Kazumi,; Nam, Ki-Hyun,; Ok Won, Seong,; Sagara, Keiko,; Shimotani, Natsuko,; Su, Shiou-fen,; Sze, Felix,; Tang, Gladys,; Yano, Uiko,
• HerausgeberIn: Coppola, Marie,; Crasborn, Onno,; Matsuoka, Kazumi,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Sign Language Typology [SLT] , 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 349 p.)

This book is one of the first references of linguistic research of sign languages in East Asia (including China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong). The book includes the basic descriptions of aspects of Chinese (Shanghai, Tianjin) sign language, Hong Kong Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language, Ko...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part 1: Manuals: Numerals, classifiers, modal verbs
• Historical relationships between numeral signs in Japanese Sign Language, South Korean Sign Language and Taiwan Sign Language
• Phonological processes in complex word formation in Shanghai Sign Language
• Classifiers and gender in Korean Sign Language
• Causative alternation in Tianjin Sign Language
• Epistemic modal verbs and negation in Japanese Sign Language
• Part 2: Non-manuals and space
• The Korean Sign Language (KSL) corpus and its first application on a study about mouth actions
• Negative polar questions in Hong Kong Sign Language
• Analyzing head nod expressions by L2 learners of Japanese Sign Language: A comparison with native Japanese Sign Language signers
• Composite utterances in Taiwan Sign Language
• Time and timelines in Tibetan Sign Language (TSL) interactions in Lhasa
• Index