Signed languages
Subtitle: discoveries from international research
By: Valerie Dively ... [et al.], editors
Contributors: Dively, Valerie; Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference (6th : 1998 : Gallaudet University)
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Sign language -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Papers presented at the 6th annual Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, held Nov. 1998, Gallaudet University

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: Why not "give us" : an articulatory constraint in signed languages / Gaurav Mathur and Christian Rathmann; Weak drop in sign language of the Netherlands / Els van der Kooij; The discourse function of noun classifiers in Swedish sign language / Brita Bergman and Lars Wallin; Signs without hands : nonhanded signs in American sign language / Valerie L. Dively; Motion and transfer : the analysis of two verb classes in Israeli sign language / Irit Meir; Functional consequences of modality : spatial coding in working memory for signs / Margaret Wilson and Karen Emmorey; Proximalization and distalization of sign movement in adult learners / Gene Mirus, Christian Rathmann, and Richard P. Meier; The emergence of narrative discourse in two young deaf children / Astrid Vercaingne-Ménard, Lucie Godard, and Marie Labelle; Analyzing variation in sign languages : theoretical and methodological issues / Rob Hoopes ... [et al.]; Politeness and Venezuelan sign language / Lourdes Pietrosemoli; ASL in northern Nigeria : will Hausa sign language survive? / Constanze Schmaling; Complex superposition of metaphors in an ASL poem / Sarah F. Taub; British sign language poetry : a linguistic analysis of the work of Dorothy Miles / Rachel Sutton-Spence