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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Haviland, John Beard (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
Colección:Benjamins current topics ; Volume 70.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (140 pages).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027268501
9027268509
9027242585
9789027242587
ISSN:1874-0081 ;