03731nam 2200601 450 991053849150332120200923020339.01-5015-0485-11-5015-0481-910.1515/9781501504853(CKB)3710000001306584(MiAaPQ)EBC4855915(DE-B1597)470322(OCoLC)987938835(DE-B1597)9781501504853(Au-PeEL)EBL4855915(CaPaEBR)ebr11382573(OCoLC)987101249(EXLCZ)99371000000130658420170529h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierNominal modification in Italian sign language /Lara MantovanBerlin, [Germany] ;Boston, [Massachusetts] ;Preston, [England] :De Gruyter Mouton :Ishara Press,2017.©20171 online resource (208 pages) illustrations, tablesSign Languages and Deaf Communities,2192-5178 ;Volume 81-5015-1343-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notation conventions -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Three theoretical dimensions of inquiry -- 2. State of the art on nominal modification -- 3. Methodology -- 4. The distribution of nominal modifiers -- 5. The duration of nominal modifiers -- 6. The syntax of cardinal numerals in LIS -- 7. Closing remarks -- References -- Index Since the recent creation of a large-scale corpus of Italian Sign Language (LIS), a new research branch has been established to study the sociolinguistic variation characterizing this language in various linguistic domains. However, for nominal modification, the role of language-internal variation remains uncertain. This volume represents the first attempt to investigate sign order variability in this domain, examining what shapes the syntactic structure of LIS nominal expressions. In particular, three empirical studies are presented and discussed: the first two are corpus studies investigating the distribution and duration of nominal modifiers, while the third deals with the syntactic behavior of cardinal numerals, an unexplored area. In this enterprise, three different theoretical dimensions of inquiry are innovatively combined: linguistic typology, generative linguistics, and sociolinguistics. The research setup involves both quantitative and qualitative data. This mixed approach starts from corpus data to present the phenomenon, examine linguistic facts on a large scale, and draw questions from these, and then looks at elicited and judgment-based data to provide valid insights and refine the analysis. Crucially, the combination of different methods contributes to a better understanding of the mechanisms driving nominal modification in LIS and its internal variation. Sign languages and deaf communities ;Volume 8.Italian Sign LanguageItalian languageItalyLanguagesElectronic books.Generative Linguistics.Italian Sign Language.Linguistic Typology.Italian Sign Language.Italian language.419.45Mantovan Lara1113751MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910538491503321Nominal modification in Italian sign language2640049UNINA