Signed languages : discoveries from international research / Valerie Dively ... [et al.], editors.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2001.

Conference Name:

Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference (6th : 1998 : Gallaudet University)

Format/Description:

Conference/Event
Book
x, 254 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Subjects:

Sign language -- Congresses.

Contents:

Why not "give us" : an articulatory constraint in signed languages / Gaurav Mathur and Christian Rathmann
Weak drop in sign language of the Netherlands / Els van der Kooij
The discourse function of noun classifiers in Swedish sign language / Brita Bergman and Lars Wallin
Signs without hands : nonhanded signs in American sign language / Valerie L. Dively
Motion and transfer : the analysis of two verb classes in Israeli sign language / Irit Meir
Functional consequences of modality : spatial coding in working memory for signs / Margaret Wilson and Karen Emmorey
Proximalization and distalization of sign movement in adult learners / Gene Mirus, Christian Rathmann, and Richard P. Meier
The emergence of narrative discourse in two young deaf children / Astrid Vercaingne-Ménard, Lucie Godard, and Marie Labelle
Analyzing variation in sign languages : theoretical and methodological issues / Rob Hoopes ... [et al.]
Politeness and Venezuelan sign language / Lourdes Pietrosemoli
ASL in northern Nigeria : will Hausa sign language survive? / Constanze Schmaling
Complex superposition of metaphors in an ASL poem / Sarah F. Taub
British sign language poetry : a linguistic analysis of the work of Dorothy Miles / Rachel Sutton-Spence.

Notes:

Papers presented at the 6th annual Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research held Nov. 1998, Gallaudet University.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor:

Dively, Valerie.

ISBN:

1563681064 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

46617954

Online:

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