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Perspectives on classifer constructions in sign language / edited by Karen Emmorey

Conference Author
Workshop on Classifier Constructions (2000 : La Jolla, San Diego, Calif.)
Additional Titles
Perspectives on classifier constructions in sign language
Published
Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 339 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Emmorey, Karen
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Language Note
Includes sign language.
Contents
The Syntax and Morphology of Classifiers in Sign Language -- Rethinking 'Classifiers' in Signed Language / Adam Schembri -- Noun and Verbal Classifiers in Swedish Sign Language / Brita Bergman and Lars Wallin -- Classifier Constructions and Morphology in Two Sign Languages / Mark Aronoff, Irit Meir, Carol Padden, and Wendy Sandler -- Commentary -- Classifiers in Spoken and in Signed Languages: How to Know More / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- Classifier Systems in the Context of a Typology of Nominal Classification / Colette Grinevald -- Cross-Linguistic Variations in Classifier Constructions and Spatial Language -- 'Classificatory' Constructions in Indo-Pakistani Sign Language: Grammaticalization and Lexicalization Processes / Ulrike Zeshan -- Verbs of Motion and Location in Hong Kong Sign Language: Conflation and Lexicalization / Gladys Tang -- Commentary -- The Representation of Spatial Structure in Spoken and Signed Language / Leonard Talmy -- Classifier Constructions and Gesture -- Sources of Meaning in ASL Classifier Predicates / Scott K. Liddell -- Categorical Versus Gradient Properties of Classifier Constructions in ASL / Karen Emmorey and Melissa Herzig -- Commentary -- Revisiting Visual Analogy in ASL Classifier Predicates / Ted Supalla -- Gesture in Language: Issues for Sign Language Research / Susan Duncan -- The Acquisition of Classifier Constructions -- A Cognitive/Functional Perspective on the Acquisition of "Classifiers" / Dan I. Slobin, Nini Hoiting, Marlon Kuntze, Reyna Lindert, Amy Weinberg, Jennie Pyers, Michelle Anthony, Yael Biederman, and Helen Thumann -- The Development of Reference Switching Encoded Through Body Classifiers in British Sign Language / Gary Morgan and Bencie Woll -- How Composite Is a Fall? Adults' and Childrens' Descriptions of Different Types of Falls in Danish Sign Language / Elizabeth Engberg-Pedersen.
Summary
This text is the result of work discussed and presented at the Workshop on Classifier Constructions. It aims to bring to light issues related to the study of classifier constructions and to present contemporary linguistic and psycholinguistic analyses of these constructions.
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ISBN
1410607445 (electronic bk.)
9781410607447 (electronic bk.)
9781135632960 (e-book ; PDF)
1135632960
9781135632915 (e-book ; Mobi)
113563291X
9781135632953 (e-book ; ePub)
1135632952
9780415653817 (paperback)
0415653819
0805842691 (alk. paper)
9780805842692
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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