LEADER 03731nam 2200601 450 001 9910538491503321 005 20200923020339.0 010 $a1-5015-0485-1 010 $a1-5015-0481-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501504853 035 $a(CKB)3710000001306584 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4855915 035 $a(DE-B1597)470322 035 $a(OCoLC)987938835 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501504853 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4855915 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11382573 035 $a(OCoLC)987101249 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001306584 100 $a20170529h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aNominal modification in Italian sign language /$fLara Mantovan 210 1$aBerlin, [Germany] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] ;$aPreston, [England] :$cDe Gruyter Mouton :$cIshara Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (208 pages) $cillustrations, tables 225 1 $aSign Languages and Deaf Communities,$x2192-5178 ;$vVolume 8 311 $a1-5015-1343-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tTable of contents -- $tList of figures -- $tList of tables -- $tNotation conventions -- $tList of abbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Three theoretical dimensions of inquiry -- $t2. State of the art on nominal modification -- $t3. Methodology -- $t4. The distribution of nominal modifiers -- $t5. The duration of nominal modifiers -- $t6. The syntax of cardinal numerals in LIS -- $t7. Closing remarks -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aSince the recent creation of a large-scale corpus of Italian Sign Language (LIS), a new research branch has been established to study the sociolinguistic variation characterizing this language in various linguistic domains. However, for nominal modification, the role of language-internal variation remains uncertain. This volume represents the first attempt to investigate sign order variability in this domain, examining what shapes the syntactic structure of LIS nominal expressions. In particular, three empirical studies are presented and discussed: the first two are corpus studies investigating the distribution and duration of nominal modifiers, while the third deals with the syntactic behavior of cardinal numerals, an unexplored area. In this enterprise, three different theoretical dimensions of inquiry are innovatively combined: linguistic typology, generative linguistics, and sociolinguistics. The research setup involves both quantitative and qualitative data. This mixed approach starts from corpus data to present the phenomenon, examine linguistic facts on a large scale, and draw questions from these, and then looks at elicited and judgment-based data to provide valid insights and refine the analysis. Crucially, the combination of different methods contributes to a better understanding of the mechanisms driving nominal modification in LIS and its internal variation. 410 0$aSign languages and deaf communities ;$vVolume 8. 606 $aItalian Sign Language 606 $aItalian language 607 $aItaly$xLanguages 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aGenerative Linguistics. 610 $aItalian Sign Language. 610 $aLinguistic Typology. 615 0$aItalian Sign Language. 615 0$aItalian language. 676 $a419.45 700 $aMantovan$b Lara$01113751 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910538491503321 996 $aNominal modification in Italian sign language$92640049 997 $aUNINA