Semantic Fields in Sign Languages: Colour, Kinship and Quantification

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2016

Semantic Fields in Sign Languages

Colour, Kinship and Quantification

Edited by: Ulrike Zeshan and Keiko Sagara

Volume 6 in the series Sign Language Typology [SLT]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501503429

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About this book

Typological studies require a broad range of linguistic data from a variety of countries, especially developing nations whose languages are under-researched. This is especially challenging for investigations of sign languages, because there are no existing corpora for most of them, and some are completely undocumented. To examine three cross-linguistically fruitful semantic fields in sign languages from a typological perspective for the first time, a detailed questionnaire was generated and distributed worldwide through emails, mailing lists, websites and the newsletter of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD). This resulted in robust data on kinship, colour and number in 32 sign languages across the globe, 10 of which are revealed in depth within this volume. These comprise languages from Europe, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific region, including Indonesian sign language varieties, which are rarely studied. Like other volumes in this series, this book will be illuminative for typologists, students of linguistics and deaf studies, lecturers, researchers, interpreters, and sign language users who travel internationally.

Author / Editor information

U. Zeshan, International Institute of Sign Languages and Deaf Studies (iSLanDS), UK; K. Sagara, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Part 1: Introduction
Semantic fields in sign languages – A comparative typological study Keiko Sagara and Ulrike Zeshan Open Access Download PDF	3
Part 2: European sign languages
Colour terms, kinship terms and numerals in Estonian Sign Language Liivi Hollman Open Access Download PDF	41
Colours and Numerals in Spanish Sign Language (LSE) Inmaculada C. Báez-Montero and Ana María Fernández-Soneira Open Access Download PDF	73
A typological look at kinship terms, colour terms and numbers in Finnish Sign Language Ritva Takkinen, Tommi Jantunen and Irja Seilola Open Access Download PDF	123
Kinship terminology in Czech Sign Language Klára Richterová, Alena Macurová and Radka Nováková Open Access Download PDF	163
Why is the SKY BLUE? On colour signs in Icelandic Sign Language Rannveig Sverrisdóttir and Kristín Lena Thorvaldsdóttir Open Access Download PDF	209
Part 3: Non-European sign languages
Numeral signs and compounding in Chinese Sign Language (CSL) Junhui Yang Open Access Download PDF	253
Colour terms in Indonesian sign language varieties: A preliminary study. Nick Palfreyman Open Access Download PDF	269
Aspects of number and kinship terms in Japanese Sign Language Keiko Sagara Open Access Download PDF	301
Kinship and colour terms in Mexican Sign Language Bernadet Hendriks Open Access Download PDF	333
Number, colour and kinship in New Zealand Sign Language Rachel McKee Open Access Download PDF	351
Language index Open Access Download PDF	385
Subject index Open Access Download PDF	389

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Linguists; Typologists; Students of Linguistics and Deaf Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 394
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 279
Keywords: Sign Language; Typology; Deaf Studies; Linguistics

eBook

Published: February 22, 2016
ISBN: 9781501503429

Hardcover

Published: February 22, 2016
ISBN: 9781501511486