Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. List of figures XV
5. Notational conventions XVI
6. Sign language acronyms XIX
7. General Introduction 1
8. Part I: Introducing Italian Sign Language (LIS)
9. 1. Italian Sign Language and the Italian Deaf community 9
10. 2. A syntactic outline of Italian Sign Language (LIS) 15
11. Part II: On Relativization
12. 3. Relativization strategies in spoken languages 53
13. 4. Relative clauses in sign languages: A typological survey 157
14. 5. Some methodological issues 175
15. 6. An internally headed relative clause analysis for LIS relative structures 187
16. Part III: On Clefting
17. 7. Clefting in spoken languages 237
18. 8. An analysis of LIS cleft constructions 267
19. Conclusions 296
20. Notes 298
21. References 317
22. Index 340