By John B. Haviland
ISBN-10: 9027242585
ISBN-13: 9789027242587
The noun is an obvious cross-linguistic common; nouns are vital ambitions of language acquisition; they're often prototypical exemplars of Saussurian arbitrariness. This quantity considers nouns in signal languages and within the evanescent performances of homesigners (and gesturers), which convey enormous iconic motivation. Do such structures mark nouns officially? Do they percentage innovations for forming nominal expressions? person chapters think of formal standards for a noun/verb contrast in signal languages with varied socio-linguistic profiles, concepts of “patterned iconicity” in a subcategory of nouns in either well-established and rising signal languages, grammatical markers for a nominal category in a primary new release kin homesign procedure from Mexico, and the altering function of handshapes in symptoms relating motion and items over the sluggish improvement of a unmarried deaf child’s homesign. the quantity is of precise curiosity to students of gesture, signal languages, linguistic typology, and the evolution, socialization, and ethnography of language. initially released in Gesture Vol. 13:3 (2013).
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Figure╯7 shows another interesting generalization. In ISL, the handshape for lipstick represents the instrument, while the ABSL handshape reflects the object itself. Padden et al. (this volume) illuminates this preferential distinction. 27 Oksana Tkachman and Wendy Sandler a. b. ╇ Number of SASS classifiers used per noun in isolation in Israeli Sign Language (ISL) and in Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL) The noun-verb distinction in two young sign languages 29 SASSes in ISL and ABSL; and third, the potential for SASS use to become a distinguishing feature in noun-verb distinctions in the future.
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