Where do nouns come from? / / edited by John B. Haviland, University of California, San Diego

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (146 p.)
• Disciplina: 419 |2 23
• Soggetto topico: Speech and gesture - Study and teaching; Sign language - Study and teaching; Gesture - Psychological aspects; Grammar, Comparative and general - Noun; Grammar, Comparative and general - Noun phrase; Interpersonal communication - Psychological aspects; Anthropological linguistics
• Persona (resp. second.): HavilandJohn Beard
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Where do nouns come from?; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; References; The noun-verb distinction in two young sign languages; Introduction; Distinguishing nouns and verbs; Ways to distinguish between nouns and verbs; Modality-specific characteristics of sign languages; Previous noun-verb studies in sign languages; Languages in our study; Methodology; Participants; Stimuli and procedure; Results; Discussion; Conclusion; References; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Patterned iconicity in sign language lexicons; Introduction ; A different notion of iconicity in sign languagesMethod; Participants; Materials; Procedure; Coding; Results; Preferential patterning in hearing non-signing gesturers; Preferential patterning in a new sign language, Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language; Preferential patterning in an established sign language, American Sign Language; Preferential patterning in another established sign language, New Zealand Sign Language; Summary of results; Discussion; Conclusion; References; The emerging grammar of nouns in a first generation sign language; Words, things, and nouns; Zinacantec Family Homesign ; Theoretical background: Nouns in homesignZ specifier-noun constructions; Descriptions of static scenes; Strategies of enactment; Specifier + Noun concatenations; Contrasting iconic strategies: phonological distinctions between nouns and verbs?; Handshapes and handling; Action and object in Z nouns; Inconsistent strategies; A grammaticalized locative/existential copula; From locative verb to copula?; Evidence from interaction: repair; Conclusion: A part-of-speech conspiracy?; Acknowledgements; References; How handshape type can distinguish between nouns and verbs in homesign; Methods ; ParticipantCoding; Coding types of handshapes; Results; Types of gestures; Types of handshapes; Handshapes in nouns vs. verbs; Discussion; Using handshape type to distinguish nouns and verbs; Situating homesign within other languages in the manual modality; Conclusion; References; Subject index; Name index
• Sommario/riassunto: All established languages, spoken or signed, make a distinction between nouns and verbs. Even a young sign language emerging within a family of deaf individuals has been found to mark the noun-verb distinction, and to use handshape type to do so. Here we ask whether handshape type is used to mark the noun-verb distinction in a gesture system invented by a deaf child who does not have access to a usable model of either spoken or signed language. The child produces homesigns that have linguistic structure, but receives from his hearing parents co-speech gestures that are structured differently f
• Titolo autorizzato: Where do nouns come from
• ISBN: 90-272-6850-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816998503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Benjamins current topics ; ; Volume 70.