The history of sign language: diachronic Libras variation in Santa Catarina

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abstracts vii
4. Introduction to the volume 1
5. Brazilian Sign Language documentation 9
6. Aspects of the historical development of Brazilian Sign Language: from the 18th to the 21st century 33
7. Tense and aspect system description for Brazilian Sign Language 53
8. A study of morpholexical features of mouth morphemes: outlining the linguistic status of non-manual markers in Libras 83
9. The variation in the number of hands of Libras signs as a result of coarticulation 101
10. The syntactic structure of the clause in Brazilian Sign Language 131
11. Evidence for determiners (articles) in Brazilian Sign Language: an analysis of the syntactic-semantic evidence found in nominals 155
12. Bimodal bilingualism: analysis of the narratives of children of deaf parents 177
13. The history of sign language: diachronic Libras variation in Santa Catarina 201
14. Brazilian Sign Language acquisition as a first language 227
15. Phonological awareness studies in Brazilian Sign Language 255
16. Oral, written and signed modalities: linguistic uses and cultural constructions in Brazilian Sign Language classes for hearing people 279
17. Reading strategies in Portuguese teaching as a second language for deaf students 305
18. Libras Poetry 321
19. The Letras Libras Glossary as a tool for the study of terminological units in Libras (Brazilian Sign Language) 339
20. Index 363