LEADER 03470nam 22005175 450 001 996517764503316 005 20230817191856.0 010 $a1-5015-1004-5 010 $a1-5015-0993-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501510045 035 $a(CKB)4100000007745938 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5786868 035 $a(DE-B1597)496664 035 $a(OCoLC)1091660238 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501510045 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007745938 100 $a20200406h20192019 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aInformation Structure in Sign Languages $eEvidence from Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands /$fVadim Kimmelman 210 1$aBerlin ;$aBoston : $cDe Gruyter Mouton, $d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (xxii, 284 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aSign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC] ;$v10 311 $a1-5015-1686-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 267-277) and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of tables -- $tList of figures -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tGlossing conventions -- $tList of sign languages and their abbreviations -- $t1. Introduction -- $t2. Puzzles of information structure -- $t3. Methodological issues -- $t4. Topics in sign languages -- $t5. Quantitative analysis of topics in RSL and NGT -- $t6. Topic prominence -- $t7. Discourse topics and modality effects -- $t8. Focus in sign languages -- $t9. A quantitative study of focus in RSL and NGT -- $t10. Contrast -- $t11. Doubling -- $t12. A corpus study of question-answer pairs in NGT -- $t13. Sign languages and typology of information structure -- $tAppendix 1. Stimuli for the study of focus in RSL and NGT -- $tAppendix 2. Testing reliability of coding for manual prosodic markers -- $tReferences -- $tSubject Index -- $tNotes 330 $aThis book presents a first comprehensive overview of existing research on information structure in sign languages. Furthermore, it is combined with novel in-depth studies of Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands. The book discusses how topic, focus, and contrast are marked in the visual modality and what implications this has for theoretical and typological study of information structure. Such issues as syntactic and prosodic markers of information structure and their interactions, relations between different notions of information structure, and grammaticalization of markers of information structure are highlighted. Empirical studies of the two sign languages also showcase different methodologies that are used in such research and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. The book contains a general introduction to the field of information structure and thus can be used by linguists new to the field. 410 0$aSign languages and deaf communities. 606 $aDutch Sign Language 606 $aRussian Sign Language 610 $aInformation Structure. 610 $aSign Languages. 615 0$aDutch Sign Language. 615 0$aRussian Sign Language. 676 $a419.415 700 $aKimmelman$b Vadim, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01347092 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996517764503316 996 $aInformation Structure in Sign Languages$93083049 997 $aUNISA