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UNINA9910683384803321 |
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Emergence of Sign Languages / / Wendy Sandler, Mark Aronoff, Carol Padden, editors |
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Basel : , : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, , 2023 |
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1 online resource (288 pages) |
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Deaf - Education - Speech |
Sign language |
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Materiale a stampa |
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We are pleased to present a Special Issue of Languages on the topic of Sign Language Emergence. Sign languages are the only extant languages that can be caught in the act of being born and developing with no model, and they, therefore, offer the only empirical evidence for language emergence in human societies. We have brought together a collection of articles on emerging sign languages that contribute a great deal to our current understanding of this process.This Special Issue covers eleven different emerging sign languages around the world. The articles deal with several aspects of language emergence, including, most notably: (1) the relationship between the emerging language and the culture of the larger society; (2) the role of iconicity in the emergence of sign language; (3) the relationship between the shared context in a small signing community and the degree of variation in the vocabulary; and (4) the vulnerability of budding sign languages. Spoken creole languages are also young, but are different from emerging sign languages, in that the speakers of pidgins from which creoles are assumed to have descended already had native languages. One article compares the features of creoles and of emerging sign languages.We are especially pleased with the diversity and breadth of interests of the contributors to the volume, who are based on four continents. The languages that they cover are equally |
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diverse in their geographical provenance. |
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UNINA9910960753003321 |
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Governance in the Americas : decentralization, democracy, and subnational government in Brazil, Mexico, and the USA / / Robert H. Wilson ... [et al.] ; in collaboration with Marta Ferreira Santos Farah ... [et al.] |
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Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 337 pages) |
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Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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WilsonRobert Hines |
FarahMarta Ferreira Santos |
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Decentralization in government - Brazil |
Federal government - Brazil |
Decentralization in government - Mexico |
Federal government - Mexico |
Decentralization in government - United States |
Federal government - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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"Recent titles from the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies"--P. [ii]. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-323) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Decentralization and the subnational state / Peter K. Spink, Victoria E. Rodriguez, Peter M. Ward, and Robert H. Wilson -- Two centuries of federalism in Brazil, Mexico, and the USA / Lawrence S. Graham and Allison M. Rowland -- The changing institutional capacity of subnational government: toward effective co-governance / Victoria E. Rodriguez, Peter K. Spink, and Peter M. Ward -- Intergovernmental relations and the subnational state: the decentralization of public policy making / Marta Ferreira Santos Farah, Pedro Jacobi, Victoria E. Rodriguez, Peter M. Ward, and Robert H. Wilson -- Government and citizens: the changing nature of civil society / Peter K. Spink, Victoria E. |
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Rodriguez, Peter M. Ward, and Robert H. Wilson -- The past, present, and future of subnational governments and federalism / Peter K. Spink, Peter M. Ward, and Robert H. Wilson -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the authors and collaborators -- Index. |
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Offers important new insights about decentralization, federalism, and democratic change in the three largest federal nations in the Americas: Brazil, Mexico, and the United States. |
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