Sign Language
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Sign language linguists show here that all questions relevant to the linguistic investigation of spoken languages can be asked about sign languages. Conversely, questions that sign language linguists consider - even if spoken language researchers have not asked them yet - should also be asked of spoken languages. The HSK handbook Sign Language aims to provide a concise and comprehensive overview of the state of the art in sign language linguistics. It includes 44 chapters, written by leading researchers in the field, that address issues in language typology, sign language grammar, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, and language documentation and transcription. Crucially, all topics are presented in a way that makes them accessible to linguists who are not familiar with sign language linguistics.
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2 - Notational conventions [Seite 9]
3 - Sign language acronyms [Seite 11]
4 - 1. Introduction [Seite 13]
5 - I. Phonetics, phonology, and prosody [Seite 16]
5.1 - 2. Phonetics [Seite 16]
5.2 - 3. Phonology [Seite 33]
5.3 - 4. Visual prosody [Seite 67]
6 - II. Morphology [Seite 89]
6.1 - 5. Word classes and word formation [Seite 89]
6.2 - 6. Plurality [Seite 124]
6.3 - 7. Verb agreement [Seite 148]
6.4 - 8. Classifiers [Seite 170]
6.5 - 9. Tense, aspect, and modality [Seite 198]
6.6 - 10. Agreement auxiliaries [Seite 216]
6.7 - 11. Pronouns [Seite 239]
7 - III. Syntax [Seite 257]
7.1 - 12. Word order [Seite 257]
7.2 - 13. The noun phrase [Seite 277]
7.3 - 14. Sentence types [Seite 304]
7.4 - 15. Negation [Seite 328]
7.5 - 16. Coordination and subordination [Seite 352]
7.6 - 17. Utterance reports and constructed action [Seite 377]
8 - IV. Semantics and pragmatics [Seite 400]
8.1 - 18. Iconicity and metaphors [Seite 400]
8.2 - 19. Use of sign space [Seite 424]
8.3 - 20. Lexical semantics: Semantic fields and lexical aspect [Seite 444]
8.4 - 21. Information structure [Seite 474]
8.5 - 22. Communicative interaction [Seite 501]
9 - V. Communication in the visual modality [Seite 525]
9.1 - 23. Manual communication systems: evolution and variation [Seite 525]
9.2 - 24. Shared sign languages [Seite 564]
9.3 - 25. Language and modality [Seite 586]
9.4 - 26. Homesign: gesture to language [Seite 613]
9.5 - 27. Gesture [Seite 638]
10 - VI. Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics [Seite 659]
10.1 - 28. Acquisition [Seite 659]
10.2 - 29. Processing [Seite 699]
10.3 - 30. Production [Seite 723]
10.4 - 31. Neurolinguistics [Seite 751]
10.5 - 32. Atypical signing [Seite 774]
11 - VII. Variation and change [Seite 800]
11.1 - 33. Sociolinguistic aspects of variation and change [Seite 800]
11.2 - 34. Lexicalization and grammaticalization [Seite 828]
11.3 - 35. Language contact and borrowing [Seite 853]
11.4 - 36. Language emergence and creolisation [Seite 874]
11.5 - 37. Language planning [Seite 901]
12 - VIII. Applied issues [Seite 921]
12.1 - 38. History of sign languages and sign language linguistics [Seite 921]
12.2 - 39. Deaf education and bilingualism [Seite 961]
12.3 - 40. Interpreting [Seite 992]
12.4 - 41. Poetry [Seite 1010]
13 - IX. Handling sign language data [Seite 1035]
13.1 - 42. Data collection [Seite 1035]
13.2 - 43. Transcription [Seite 1057]
13.3 - 44. Computer modelling [Seite 1087]
14 - Indexes [Seite 1115]
14.1 - Index of subjects [Seite 1115]
14.2 - Index of sign languages [Seite 1132]
14.3 - Index of spoken languages [Seite 1137]
