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 |
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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 |
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.