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Nominal Modification in Italian Sign Language

Nominal Modification in Italian Sign Language

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Series: Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [Sldc], Book 8

ItalianSign LanguageLinguistics

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ISBN10: 1501513435
ISBN13: 9781501513435
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: May 8 2017
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Since the recent creation of a large-scale corpus of Italian Sign Language (LIS), a new research branch has been established to study the sociolinguistic variation characterizing this language in various linguistic domains. However, for nominal modification, the role of language-internal variation remains uncertain. This volume represents the first attempt to investigate sign order variability in this domain, examining what shapes the syntactic structure of LIS nominal expressions. In particular, three empirical studies are presented and discussed: the first two are corpus studies investigating the distribution and duration of nominal modifiers, while the third deals with the syntactic behavior of cardinal numerals, an unexplored area.

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