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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816998503321

Titolo

Where do nouns come from? / / edited by John B. Haviland, University of California, San Diego

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-272-6850-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (146 p.)

Collana

Benjamins Current Topics, , 1874-0081 ; ; Volume 70

Disciplina

419 |2 23

Soggetti

Speech and gesture - Study and teaching

Sign language - Study and teaching

Gesture - Psychological aspects

Grammar, Comparative and general - Noun

Grammar, Comparative and general - Noun phrase

Interpersonal communication - Psychological aspects

Anthropological linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Where do nouns come from?; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; References; The noun-verb distinction in two young sign languages; Introduction; Distinguishing nouns and verbs; Ways to distinguish between nouns and verbs; Modality-specific characteristics of sign languages; Previous noun-verb studies in sign languages; Languages in our study; Methodology; Participants; Stimuli and procedure; Results; Discussion; Conclusion; References; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Patterned iconicity in sign language lexicons; Introduction

A different notion of iconicity in sign languagesMethod; Participants; Materials; Procedure; Coding; Results; Preferential patterning in hearing non-signing gesturers; Preferential patterning in a new sign language, Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language; Preferential patterning in an established sign language, American Sign Language; Preferential



patterning in another established sign language, New Zealand Sign Language; Summary of results; Discussion; Conclusion; References; The emerging grammar of nouns in a first generation sign language; Words, things, and nouns; Zinacantec Family Homesign

Theoretical background: Nouns in homesignZ specifier-noun constructions; Descriptions of static scenes; Strategies of enactment; Specifier + Noun concatenations; Contrasting iconic strategies: phonological distinctions between nouns and verbs?; Handshapes and handling; Action and object in Z nouns; Inconsistent strategies; A grammaticalized locative/existential copula; From locative verb to copula?; Evidence from interaction: repair; Conclusion: A part-of-speech conspiracy?; Acknowledgements; References; How handshape type can distinguish between nouns and verbs in homesign; Methods

ParticipantCoding; Coding types of handshapes; Results; Types of gestures; Types of handshapes; Handshapes in nouns vs. verbs; Discussion; Using handshape type to distinguish nouns and verbs; Situating homesign within other languages in the manual modality; Conclusion; References; Subject index; Name index

Sommario/riassunto

All established languages, spoken or signed, make a distinction between nouns and verbs. Even a young sign language emerging within a family of deaf individuals has been found to mark the noun-verb distinction, and to use handshape type to do so. Here we ask whether handshape type is used to mark the noun-verb distinction in a gesture system invented by a deaf child who does not have access to a usable model of either spoken or signed language. The child produces homesigns that have linguistic structure, but receives from his hearing parents co-speech gestures that are structured differently f