On Relativization and Clefting :
Branchini, Chiara,
On Relativization and Clefting : An Analysis of Italian Sign Language / Chiara Branchini. - Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014] ©2015 - 1 online resource (343 p.) - Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC] , 5 2192-516X ; .
Frontmatter -- 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
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:
In English.
9781501500008
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Cleft Constructions. Italian Sign Language. Relative Clauses.
On Relativization and Clefting : An Analysis of Italian Sign Language / Chiara Branchini. - Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014] ©2015 - 1 online resource (343 p.) - Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC] , 5 2192-516X ; .
Frontmatter -- 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
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:
In English.
9781501500008
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Cleft Constructions. Italian Sign Language. Relative Clauses.