Where do nouns come from? /
All established languages, spoken or signed, make a distinction between nouns and verbs. Even a young sign language emerging within a family of deaf individuals has been found to mark the noun-verb distinction, and to use handshape type to do so. Here we ask whether handshape type is used to mark th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2015]
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Colección: | Benjamins current topics ;
Volume 70. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | All established languages, spoken or signed, make a distinction between nouns and verbs. Even a young sign language emerging within a family of deaf individuals has been found to mark the noun-verb distinction, and to use handshape type to do so. Here we ask whether handshape type is used to mark the noun-verb distinction in a gesture system invented by a deaf child who does not have access to a usable model of either spoken or signed language. The child produces homesigns that have linguistic structure, but receives from his hearing parents co-speech gestures that are structured differently f. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (140 pages). |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789027268501 9027268509 9027242585 9789027242587 |
ISSN: | 1874-0081 ; |