Terms for Spatio-Temporal Relations in Italian Sign Language

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword: Under the Sign of Cratylus vii
4. I. History of Linguistics
5. Criticisms of the Arbitrariness of Language in Leibniz and Vico and the ‘Natural’ Philosophy of Language 3
6. II. Semiotic Theory
7. Interactions between Iconicity and Other Semiotic Parameters in Language 21
8. Iconicity and/or Arbitrariness 39
9. Isomorphism in the Grammatical Code 47
10. The Icon as an Abductive Process towards Identity 77
11. III. Language Description and Linguistic Theory
12. The Iconic Index 87
13. Iconicity in Grammaticalization Processes 119
14. Iconicity between Indicativity and Predicativity 141
15. Iconic Aspects of Syntax 153
16. Figure and Ground in Second Language Narratives 171
17. Morphological Markedness in L2 Acquisition 197
18. IV. Sign Systems Other than Verbal Language
19. Terms for Spatio-Temporal Relations in Italian Sign Language 237
20. Creative Iconic Gestures 257
21. Iconicity in Children’s First Written Texts 277
22. Index 309