Sign Language : : An International Handbook / / ed. by Roland Pfau, Markus Steinbach, Bencie Woll.
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 spo...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Notational conventions
- Sign language acronyms
- 1. Introduction
- I. Phonetics, phonology, and prosody
- 2. Phonetics
- 3. Phonology
- 4. Visual prosody
- II. Morphology
- 5. Word classes and word formation
- 6. Plurality
- 7. Verb agreement
- 8. Classifiers
- 9. Tense, aspect, and modality
- 10. Agreement auxiliaries
- 11. Pronouns
- III. Syntax
- 12. Word order
- 13. The noun phrase
- 14. Sentence types
- 15. Negation
- 16. Coordination and subordination
- 17. Utterance reports and constructed action
- IV. Semantics and pragmatics
- 18. Iconicity and metaphor
- 19. Use of sign space
- 20. Lexical semantics: Semantic fields and lexical aspect
- 21. Information structure
- 22. Communicative interaction
- V. Communication in the visual modality
- 23. Manual communication systems: evolution and variation
- 24. Shared sign languages
- 25. Language and modality
- 26. Homesign: gesture to language
- 27. Gesture
- VI. Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics
- 28. Acquisition
- 29. Processing
- 30. Production
- 31. Neurolinguistics
- 32. Atypical signing
- VII. Variation and change
- 33. Sociolinguistic aspects of variation and change
- 34. Lexicalization and grammaticalization
- 35. Language contact and borrowing
- 36. Language emergence and creolisation
- 37. Language planning
- VIII. Applied issues
- 38. History of sign languages and sign language linguistics
- 39. Deaf education and bilingualism
- 40. Interpreting
- 41. Poetry
- IX. Handling sign language data
- 42. Data collection
- 43. Transcription
- 44. Computer modelling
- Indexes
- Index of subjects
- Index of sign languages
- Index of spoken languages
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