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Modal and focus particles in sign languages : a cross-linguistic study /

II Modal meaning; Modality and modal particles in spoken languages; Modality and modal meaning; Modality; Modal meaning; Particles; The particle class and its properties; Minimalistic and maximalistic analyses of particles; Modal particles under investigation; Properties of modal particles; Modal pa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Herrmann, Annika (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Nijmegen : De Gruyter Mouton ; Ishara Press, [2013]
Colección:Sign languages and deaf communities ; 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements; List of figures; List of tables; Notational conventions; Sign language acronyms; Introduction; sign language study topic what?; Methodology and data; Theoretical framework; Hypothesis and results; Modal particles in sign languages; Focus particles in sign languages; Outline of the book; I Typological, theoretical, and methodological background; Sign language typology; German Sign Language (DGS); Cultural background information; The structure of DGS; Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT); Cultural background information; The structure of NGT; Irish Sign Language (ISL).
  • Cultural background informationThe structure of ISL; Common features and differences; Variation hypothesis; Nonmanuals in sign languages; Nonmanuals
  • Everything that is not manual?; Affective or grammatical
  • How can we tell?; Functions of nonmanuals in DGS, NGT, and ISL; Analyses of nonmanuals in sign languages; Tones in sign languages; Nonmanuals and their relation to particles; Summary; Methodology; Comparative approach; Data elicitation: Methods and materials; Corpora; Empirical approach; Data collection; Informants
  • General issues; Locations; Setting; Annotation and transcription.
  • Modal meaning taskInformants; Deaf informants; Hearing informants
  • Control group; Experimental design; Task; Data; Results: Modal meaning in sign languages; DGS data; NGT data; ISL data; Control group data; Summary of the results; Analysis; Syntactic analysis of nonmanuals; Syntax of nonmanuals for modal meaning; Prosodic analysis of nonmanuals; Compositional account for nonmanuals; Semantics of nonmanuals for modal meaning; Conclusion; III Focus particles; Focus particles in spoken languages; Focus particles and information structure; Properties of focus particles.
  • Focus and its relation to focus particlesFocus and information structure; Focus and focus particles; Summary; The semantics of only, also, and even; Restrictive focus particles
  • only; Additive focus particles
  • also and even; Syntactic focus particle theories; Adverbial-only analysis; Mixed analysis; Conclusion; Focus particles in sign languages; Focus in sign languages; Only, also, and even in sign languages; Focus particles
  • Corpora data; Focus particle tasks; Informants; Experimental design; Tasks; Picture elicitation task; Translation task; Picture story task; Data.