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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: where does "where do nouns come from?" come from? / John B. Haviland
  • The noun-verb distinction in two young sign languages / Oksana Tkachman and Wendy Sandler
  • Patterned iconicity in sign languages lexicons / Carol Padden, Irit Meir, So-One Hwang, Ryan Lepic, Sharon Seegers, and Tory Sampson
  • The emerging grammar of nouns in a first generation sign language: specification, iconicity, and syntax / John B. Haviland
  • How handshape type can distinguish between nouns and verbs in homesign / Dea Hunsicker and Susan Goldin-Meadow.