Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Notational conventions VI
4. Sign language acronyms VIII
5. Complex sentences in sign languages: Modality – typology – discourse 1
6. Preference for clause order in complex sentences with adverbial clauses in American Sign Language 36
7. Observations on clausal complementation in Turkish Sign Language 65
8. An in-depth tour into sentential complementation in Italian Sign Language 95
9. Embedding polar interrogative clauses in American Sign Language 151
10. Relativization in Italian Sign Language: the missing link of relativization 182
11. Reporting with and without role shift: sign language strategies of complementation 204
12. An annotation scheme to investigate the form and function of hand dominance in the Corpus NGT 231
13. Language index 252
14. Subject index 253
15. Contributors 261