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1 online resource (xxi, 547 pages) :
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Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-139-16391-4
Inhalt:
Sign languages are of great interest to linguists, because while they are the product of the same brain, their physical transmission differs greatly from that of spoken languages. In this 2006 study, Wendy Sandler and Diane Lillo-Martin compare sign languages with spoken languages, in order to seek the universal properties they share. Drawing on general linguistic theory, they describe and analyze sign language structure, showing linguistic universals in the phonology, morphology, and syntax of sign language, while also revealing non-universal aspects of its structure that must be attributed to its physical transmission system. No prior background in sign language linguistics is assumed, and numerous pictures are provided to make descriptions of signs and facial expressions accessible to readers. Engaging and informative, Sign Language and Linguistic Universals will be invaluable to linguists, psychologists, and all those interested in sign languages, linguistic theory and the universal properties of human languages.
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Cover -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Notation conventions -- Unit 1 INTRODUCTION -- One human language or two? -- Separating the code from the mode: the role of linguistic theory -- The mode and its implications for the study of language -- Unit 2 MORPHOLOGY -- Morphology: introduction -- Inflectional morphology -- Verb agreement -- Verbal aspect -- Pluralization -- Models of templatic morphology -- Derivational morphology -- Templatic derivational morphology in sign languages -- Morpheme sequences: non-templatic derivational morphology in sign languages -- Compounds -- Interim summary -- Classifier constructions -- A basic description -- Verbal classifiers and Noun Incorporation -- Classifier constructions: bound morphemes combined postlexically -- Understanding classifier constructions through poetry -- Conclusion -- Entering the lexicon: lexicalization, backformation, and cross-modal borrowing -- Classifier constructions: from postlexical to lexical and back again -- Productivity and lexicalization: the case of saunter -- Foreign vocabulary -- Morphology: conclusion -- Unit 3 PHONOLOGY -- Meaningless linguistic elements and how they pattern -- Sequentiality and simultaneity in sign language phonology -- Liberation of the segment: excursus on non-linear theories of phonology and morphology -- Sequential Structure in the sign -- The Move-Hold model: sequential segments in sign language -- The Hand Tier model: hand configuration as an autosegment -- The phonology of non-linear morphology in sign language: prosodic templates -- Conclusion -- Hand configuration -- Parameters of contrast -- Hierarchical representation of feature classes: handshape -- Orientation and the hand configuration hierarchy -- Terminal features -- Where is hand configuration in the overall phonological model? -- Summary and conclusion.
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Location: feature content and segmental status -- Two classes of location features -- A 3-D hierarchy of signing spaces -- Summary and unresolved issues -- The non-dominant hand in the sign language lexicon -- The two-role theory -- The one-role theory: a dependency model -- Advantages and disadvantages of each theory of h2 -- Phonology vs. phonetics, and the central consensus -- The roles of the non-dominant hand beyond the lexicon -- Movement -- The movement category: preliminary description -- Evidence for a movement category -- Representation of movement as a sequential segment -- Another proposal: movement as prosody -- Movement in words is constrained -- Is there a syllable in sign language? -- The sign language syllable: preliminary description -- Theoretical background: the syllable in spoken language -- The sign language syllable as a timing unit -- Distinguishing the sign language syllable, the morpheme, and the word: constraints on structure -- The monosyllable conspiracy and other syllable level generalizations -- Sonority in sign language -- Syllables and sonority: conclusion -- Prosody -- The Prosodic Word -- The Phonological Phrase -- The Intonational Phrase and intonation in sign language -- Superarticulation: facial expression as intonation -- Nonisomorphism -- Summary, conclusion, and future research -- Phonology: theoretical implications -- Consensus and unresolved issues -- The architecture of the phonological component: lexical, postlexical, and non-lexical -- Universals and modality effects in both modalities -- Unit 4 SYNTAX -- Syntax: introduction -- Unit overview -- The generative approach -- Clausal structure -- Basic word order -- Embedding -- Phrase structure -- Summary and conclusion -- Clausal structure across sign languages -- Auxiliary signs -- LSB phrase structure -- LSB compared with ASL.
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Variations and extensions on basic sentence structures -- DP structure -- The syntax of classifier constructions -- Verb sandwiches and object shift -- Negatives -- Pronouns -- Overt pronouns -- Two kinds of null arguments in ASL? -- Topic and focus -- Information packaging -- Topics in sign languages -- Information packaging in ASL -- Double constructions -- Clefting: so-called rhetorical questions -- WH-questions -- A cross-linguistic look at WH-questions -- Is WH-movement to left or right? -- Interim summary -- LSB WH-movement -- WH-questions and intonation -- Conclusions -- Syntax: summary and directions -- Summary -- Future research -- Modality effects -- Unit 5 MODALITY -- The effects of modality: linguistic universals and sign language universals -- Signed languages and linguistic universals -- The use of space -- Simultaneity -- Iconicity/motivatedness -- Language age and language structure -- Conclusion, implications, and directions for future research -- References -- Index.
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ISBN 0-521-48395-6
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Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139163910
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