A matter of complexity : subordination in sign languages
Title:
A matter of complexity : subordination in sign languages
Author:
Pfau, Roland, editor.
ISBN:
9781501503238
Physical Description:
1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations.
Series:
Sign languages and deaf communities ; 6
Sign languages and deaf communities ; 6.
Contents:
Notational conventions and sign language acronyms -- Complex sentences in sign languages : modality, typology, discourse / Roland Pfau & Markus Steinbach -- Preference for clause order in complex sentences with adverbial clauses in American sign language / Ronnie B. Wilbur -- Observations on clausal complementation in Turkish sign language / Asli Goksel & Meltem Kelepir -- An in-depth tour into sentential complementation in Italian sign language / Carlo Geraci & Valentina Aristodemo -- Embedding polar interrogative clauses in American sign language / Kathryn Davidson & Ivano Caponigro -- Relativization in Italian sign language : the missing link of relativization / Carlo Cecchetto & Caterina Donati -- Reporting with and without role shift: sign language strategies of complementation / Josep Quer -- An annotation scheme to investigate the form and function of hand dominance in the corpus NGT / Onno Crasborn & Anna Safar -- Language index -- Subject index -- List of contributors.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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