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Visible Variation : Comparative Studies on Sign Language Structure.
It has been argued that properties of the visual-gestural modality impose a homogenizing effect on sign languages, leading to less structural variation in sign language structure as compared to spoken language structure. However, until recently, research on sign languages was limited to a number of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
2008.
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| Colección: | Trends in Linguistics: Studies & Monographs, v. 188.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter; Table of contents; Notational conventions; Can't you see the difference? Sources of variation in sign language structure; Occurrence of mouthings in American Sign Language: A preliminary study; Do all pronouns point? Indexicality of first person plural pronouns in BSL and ASL; Negation in Jordanian Sign Language: A cross-linguistic perspective; On the syntax of negation and modals in Catalan Sign Language and German Sign Language; 'Real data are messy': Considering cross-linguistic analysis of constituent ordering in Auslan, VGT, and ISL.