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Record Nr.

UNISA996309230103316

Autore

Branchini Chiara

Titolo

On relativization and clefting : an analysis of Italian sign language / / by Chiara Branchini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-5015-0004-X

1-5015-0000-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Collana

Sign languages and deaf communities, , 2192-516X ; ; 5

Disciplina

419.45

Soggetti

Sign language

Deaf - Means of communication - Italy

Italian language - Relative clauses

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notational conventions -- Sign language acronyms -- General Introduction -- Part I: Introducing Italian Sign Language (LIS) -- 1. Italian Sign Language and the Italian Deaf community -- 2. A syntactic outline of Italian Sign Language (LIS) -- Part II: On Relativization -- 3. Relativization strategies in spoken languages -- 4. Relative clauses in sign languages: A typological survey -- 5. Some methodological issues -- 6. An internally headed relative clause analysis for LIS relative structures -- Part III: On Clefting -- 7. Clefting in spoken languages -- 8. An analysis of LIS cleft constructions -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This work is a contribution to our understanding of relativization strategies and clefting in Italian Sign Language, and more broadly, to our understanding of these constructions in world languages by setting the discussion on the theories that have been proposed in the literature of spoken languages to derive the syntactic phenomena object of investigation.