Iconicity and Verb Agreement A Corpus-Based Syntactic Analysis of German Sign Language
In many sign languages around the world, some verbs express grammatical agreement, while many others do not. Curiously, there is a remarkable degree of semantic overlap across sign languages between verbs that do and do not possess agreement properties.This book scrutinizes the interaction between s...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2022]
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| Series: | Sign languages and deaf communities ;
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notation conventions
- List of sign languages
- Part I: Background
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methodology
- Part II: Verb semantics and iconic mappings
- 3 Verb types and semantic maps
- 4 Iconic mapping patterns
- 5 Synthesis: verb semantics
- Part III: Morphosyntactic properties of verb forms
- 6 Body-anchored verbs
- 7 Neutral verbs
- 8 Agreement verbs and spatial verbs
- 9 Synthesis: morphosyntactic properties
- Part IV: Theoretical analysis and implications
- 10 Spatial verbs are demonstration verbs
- 11 A unified analysis in terms of agreement
- 12 Concluding remarks
- A Verb meanings and lexical signs
- Bibliography
- Index