Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Branchini, Chiara.

Title On Relativization and Clefting : an Analysis of Italian Sign Language / by Chiara Branchini.

Publication Info. Boston : De Gruyter Mouton : Ishara Press, 2014.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (364 pages).
text file PDF
Physical Medium polychrome
Series Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC], 2192-5178 ; v. 5
Sign languages and deaf communities ; 5.
Contents Acknowledgements; 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; 1.1 Historical background; 1.2 The Italian Deaf community today; 1.3 Linguistic research on LIS; 2 A syntactic outline of Italian Sign Language (LIS); Introduction; 2.1 Modality-specific characteristics; 2.1.1 The internal structure of signs; 2.1.2 The linguistic use of space and movement; 2.1.2.1 Verb agreement; 2.1.2.2 Space and referentiality; 2.1.3 The non-manual component.
2.2 Representing LIS syntactic structure2.2.1 The CP layer; 2.2.1.1 Interrogative pronouns; 2.2.1.2 Relative pronouns; 2.2.1.3 Representing the CP layer; 2.2.2 The IP layer; 2.2.3 The VP layer; 2.2.4 The Determiner Phrase (DP); 2.2.4.1 Identifying D heads in LIS; 2.2.4.2 Distribution of D-like elements in the sentence; 2.2.4.3. Reduplication of D heads; 2.2.4.4 Naked NPs; 2.2.4.5 Heavy NPs; 2.2.4.6 Summing up LIS DP; 2.2.5 A structure; 2.3 Introducing relative and cleft constructions in LIS: the challenges; 2.4. Summary; Part II: On Relativization.
3 Relativization strategies in spoken languagesIntroduction; 3.1 Defining relativization; 3.2. The relative option: some constitutive elements; 3.3 Syntactic typologies across languages; 3.3.1 Internally Headed Relative Clauses (IHRCs); 3.3.2 Externally Headed Relative Clauses (EHRCs); 3.3.3 Free Relatives (FRs); 3.3.4 Correlative clauses; 3.3.5 Summing up the properties displayed by the main syntactic typologies; 3.4 Three semantic interpretations of relative clauses; 3.4.1 Restrictive relative clauses; 3.4.1.1 Antecedent-related properties.
3.4.1.2 Relative pronouns and pied-piping phenomena3.4.1.3 Scope phenomena; 3.4.1.4 Reconstruction and binding phenomena; 3.4.1.5 Extraposition; 3.4.1.6 Stacking; 3.4.1.7 Other properties; 3.4.1.8 Summing up; 3.4.2 Non-restrictive relative clauses; 3.4.2.1 Head-related properties; 3.4.2.2 Relative pronouns and pied-piping phenomena; 3.4.2.3 Scope phenomena; 3.4.2.4 Reconstruction and binding phenomena; 3.4.2.5 Extraposition; 3.4.2.6 Stacking; 3.4.2.7 Other properties; 3.4.2.8 Summing up; 3.4.3 Maximalizing relative clauses: Grosu and Landman's (1998) semantic scale.
3.4.4 Summing up the syntactic properties exhibited by restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses3.5 The syntactic representation of relative constructions; 3.5.1 The raising analysis; 3.5.1.1 Internally headed relative clauses; 3.5.1.2 Externally headed relative clauses; 3.5.1.3 Free relatives; 3.5.1.4. Correlative clauses; 3.5.1.5 Representing the semantic interpretation of relative structures; 3.6 Summary; 4 Relative clauses in sign languages: A typological survey; Introduction; 4.1 Relative constructions in American Sign Language (ASL).
Note 4.2 Relative constructions in Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS).
Summary 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Language In English.
Subject Italian Sign Language -- Grammar.
Italian Sign Language.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Indexed Term (Produktform)Electronic book text
(Zielgruppe)Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft
(BISAC Subject Heading)LAN009000
(BISAC Subject Heading)LAN017000: LAN017000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Sign Language
(VLB-WN)9560
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Branchini, Chiara. On Relativization and Clefting : An Analysis of Italian Sign Language. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, ©2014 9781501510373
ISBN 9781501500008 (electronic book)
1501500007 (electronic book)
9781501500046 (electronic book)
150150004X (electronic book)
1501510371
9781501510373
9781501500015 (print + online)
1501500015 (print + online)
Standard No. 10.1515/9781501500008
9781501500008
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2016091910220
9781501500046
urn:nbn:de:101:1-201605262445
9781501510373
ebc1759910