Screen LibraryOn relativization and clefting : an analysis of Italian sign language /
This work is a contribution to our understanding of relativization strategies and clefting in Italian Sign Language, and more broadly, to our understanding of these constructions in world languages by setting the discussion on the theories that have been proposed in the literature of spoken language...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Sign languages and deaf communities [sldc];
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| Summary: |
This work is a contribution to our understanding of relativization strategies and clefting in Italian Sign Language, and more broadly, to our understanding of these constructions in world languages by setting the discussion on the theories that have been proposed in the literature of spoken languages to derive the syntactic phenomena object of investigation. |
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1 online resource(xvii,343pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9781501500008 |
| Index Number: | HV2476 |
| CLC: | H08 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notational conventions -- Sign language acronyms -- General Introduction -- 1. Italian Sign Language and the Italian Deaf community -- 2. A syntactic outline of Italian Sign Language (LIS) -- 3. Relativization strategies in spoken languages -- 4. Relative clauses in sign languages: A typological survey -- 5. Some methodological issues -- 6. An internally headed relative clause analysis for LIS relative structures -- 7. Clefting in spoken languages -- 8. An analysis of LIS cleft constructions -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index. |