Format:
1 Online-Ressource (270 S.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
ISBN:
1501511335
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9781501503238
Series Statement:
Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC] v.6
Content:
This book discusses issues of complex sentences and discourse in sign and spoken languages, focusing on modality-specific and modality-independent aspects of such complex structures. The chapters address prosodic, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of complex sentences and text/discourse structures from an empirical, typological, and theoretical perspective. R. Pfau, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; A. Herrmann, M. Steinbach, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany.
Content:
Tabic 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 -- Observations on clausal complementation in Turkish Sign Language -- An in-depth tour into sentential complementation in Italian Sign Language
Content:
Embedding polar interrogative clauses in American Sign Language Kathryn Davidson & Ivano Caponigro -- Relativization in Italian Sign Language: the missing link of relativization -- Reporting with and without role shift: sign language strategies of complementation -- An annotation scheme to investigate the form and lunction of hand dominance in the Corpus NGT -- Language index -- Subject index -- Contributors
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1501503235
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501503016
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501511332
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Pfau, Roland A Matter of Complexity : Subordination in Sign Languages Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter,c2016
Language:
English
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