Where do nouns come from? /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Haviland, John Beard (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
Series:Benjamins current topics ; Volume 70.
Subjects:
Speech and gesture > Study and teaching.
Sign language > Study and teaching.
Gesture > Psychological aspects.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Noun.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Noun phrase.
Interpersonal communication > Psychological aspects.
Anthropological linguistics.
Parole et gestes > Étude et enseignement.
Langage par signes > Étude et enseignement.
Gestes > Aspect psychologique.
Nom (Linguistique)
Communication interpersonnelle > Aspect psychologique.
Ethnolinguistique.
anthropological linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Sign Language.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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