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3rd ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 493 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Preface to the Third Edition""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""BASIC CONCEPTS""; ""Basic Concepts""; ""PHONOLOGY""; ""Unit 1 Signs Have Parts""; ""Unit 2 The Stokoe System""; ""Unit 3 The Concept of Sequentiality in the Description of Signs""; ""Unit 4 The Movement�Hold Model""; ""Unit 5 Phonological Processes""; ""Unit 6 Summary""; ""MORPHOLOGY""; ""Unit 1 Phonology vs. Morphology""; ""Unit 2 Deriving Nouns from Verbs in ASL""; ""Unit 3 Compounds""; ""Unit 4 Lexicalized Fingerspelling and Loan Signs""; ""Unit 5 Numeral Incorporation"" |
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""Unit 6 The Function of Space in ASL""""Unit 7 Classifier Predicates and Locative Verbs""; ""Unit 8 Classifier Predicates and Signer Perspective""; ""Unit 9 Subject-Object Agreement""; ""Unit 10 Pronouns and Determiners""; ""Unit 11 Temporal Aspect""; ""Unit 12 Derivational and Inflectional Morphology""; ""Unit 13 Time in ASL""; ""SYNTAX""; ""Unit 1 Definitions""; ""Unit 2 Simple Sentences with Plain Verbs""; ""Unit 3 Simple Sentences with Agreement Verbs""; ""Unit 4 Basic Sentence Types""; ""SEMANTICS""; ""Unit 1 The Meaning of Individual Signs""; ""Unit 2 The Meaning of Sentences"" |
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""LANGUAGE IN USE""""Unit 1 Variation and Historical Change""; ""Unit 2 ASL Discourse""; ""Unit 3 Bilingualism and Language Contact""; ""Unit 4 Language as Art""; ""SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS""; ""Analyzing Signs""; ""File 4�Introduction: What Do You Know When You Know a Language""; ""File 5�Introduction: Prescriptive vs. Descriptive Rules of Grammar""; ""File 6�Introduction: Arbitrariness in Language""; ""Signs Have Parts: A Simple Idea""; ""Introduction from A Dictionary of American Sign Language""; ""File 20�Phonetics: The Sounds of Speech"" |
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""File 30�Phonology: The Value of Sounds: Phonemes""""American Sign Language: The Phonological Base""; ""File 40�Morphology: The Minimal Units of Meaning: Morphemes""; ""File 42�Morphology: The Hierarchical Structure of Words""; ""File 43�Morphology: Word Formation Processes""; ""The Confluence of Space and Language in Signed Languages""; ""A Class of Determiners in ASL""; ""Syntax: Sentences and Their Structure""; ""Syntax: The Study of Sentence Structure""; ""Semantics: The Study of Meaning""; ""File 120�Regional Variation: The Origin of American Dialects"" |
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""File 123�Regional Variation: Variation at Different Levels""""Analyzing Variation in Sign Languages: Theoretical and Methodological Issues""; ""Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Black Deaf Community""; ""Toward a Description of Register Variation in American Sign Language""; ""Features of Discourse in an American Sign Language Lecture""; ""Language Contact in the American Deaf Community""; ""Index"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American Sign Language -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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American Sign Language. |
| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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Electronic books.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Added Author |
Lucas, Ceil.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Valli, Clayton. Linguistics of American Sign Language. 3rd ed. Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2000 1563680971 (DLC) 00064369 (OCoLC)45024552 |
| ISBN |
1563682184 (electronic book) |
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9781563682186 (electronic book) |
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1563680971 (alkaline paper) |
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9781563680977 (alkaline paper) |
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