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Information Structure in Sign Languages
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Over the past decades, the field of sign language linguistics has expanded considerably. Recent research on sign languages includes a wide range of subdomains such as reference grammars, theoretica...
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19 February 2019

This book presents a first comprehensive overview of existing research on information structure in sign languages. Furthermore, it is combined with novel in-depth studies of Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands. The book discusses how topic, focus, and contrast are marked in the visual modality and what implications this has for theoretical and typological study of information structure. Such issues as syntactic and prosodic markers of information structure and their interactions, relations between different notions of information structure, and grammaticalization of markers of information structure are highlighted. Empirical studies of the two sign languages also showcase different methodologies that are used in such research and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. The book contains a general introduction to the field of information structure and thus can be used by linguists new to the field.
Price: $160.99
Pages: 307
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter Mouton
Publication Date:
19 February 2019
ISBN: 9781501516863
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
LAN017000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Sign Language
Vadim Kimmelman, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands