Verbal and signed languages
Subtitle: comparing structures, constructs and methodologies
By: edited by Elena Pizzuto, Paola Pietrandrea, Raffaele Simone.
Contributors: Pizzuto, Elena.; Pietrandrea, Paola.; Simone, Raffaele.
Series: Empirical approaches to language typology -- 36
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9783110195859
Subjects: Sign language; Linguistic analysis (Linguistics); Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammatical categories; Semantics; Gesture; Metaphor; Cohesion (Linguistics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Iconicity and arbitrariness in French Sign Language / Christian Cuxac and Marie-Anne Sallandre; title: Diagrammatic and imagic hypoicons in signed and verbal languages / Paola Pietrandrea and Tommaso Russo; title: Sign language phonology / Diane Brentari; title: Linguistic units in signed and verbal languages / Claire Blanche-Benveniste; title: Routes from gestures to language / Sherman Wilcox; title: Interfaces / Annarita Puglielli and Mara Frascarelli; title: The expression of grammatical categories in signed languages / Terry Janzen; title: Constructions and categories in verbal and signed languages / Raffaele Simone; title: Constructs of the mind / Phyllis Perrin Wilcox; title: Deixis, anaphora and person reference in signed languages / Elena Pizzuto; title: The deep relation between deixis and anaphora / Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri.