Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. From spoken to signed languages back and forth, between cognition and semiotics 1
4. Chapter 1. Historical steps towards a new description of sign languages 7
5. Chapter 2. The community 35
6. Chapter 3. The basic units of LIS 63
7. Chapter 4. Constructing sentences 101
8. Chapter 5. Variation and change in LIS 133
9. Chapter 6. Sign languages and spoken languages 165
10. References 191
11. Index 217