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

• Autore: Branchini Chiara
• Pubblicazione: Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (364 p.)
• Disciplina: 419.45
• Soggetto topico: Sign language; Deaf - Means of communication - Italy; Italian language - Relative clauses
• Soggetto non controllato: Cleft Constructions; Italian Sign Language; Relative Clauses
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: On relativization and clefting
• ISBN: 1-5015-0004-X; 1-5015-0000-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910309744303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Sign languages and deaf communities ; ; 5.