A Matter of Complexity
Subordination in Sign Languages
Published on 7. March 2016
Book
Mixed media product
VIII, 262 pages
978-1-5015-0324-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book discusses issues of complex sentences and discourse in sign and spoken languages, focusing on modality-specific and modality-independent aspects of such complex structures. The chapters address prosodic, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of complex sentences and text/discourse structures from an empirical, typological, and theoretical perspective.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Boston
United States
Publishing group
De Gruyter
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
Includes a print version and an ebook
Dimensions
Height: 23 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
ISBN-13
978-1-5015-0324-5 (9781501503245)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
R. Pfau, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; A. Herrmann, M. Steinbach, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany.