Semantic Fields in Sign Languages
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Edited by:
Ulrike Zeshan
About this book
Typological studies require a broad range of linguistic data from a variety of countries, especially developing nations whose languages are under-researched. This is especially challenging for investigations of sign languages, because there are no existing corpora for most of them, and some are completely undocumented. To examine three cross-linguistically fruitful semantic fields in sign languages from a typological perspective for the first time, a detailed questionnaire was generated and distributed worldwide through emails, mailing lists, websites and the newsletter of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD). This resulted in robust data on kinship, colour and number in 32 sign languages across the globe, 10 of which are revealed in depth within this volume. These comprise languages from Europe, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific region, including Indonesian sign language varieties, which are rarely studied. Like other volumes in this series, this book will be illuminative for typologists, students of linguistics and deaf studies, lecturers, researchers, interpreters, and sign language users who travel internationally.
Author / Editor information
U. Zeshan, International Institute of Sign Languages and Deaf Studies (iSLanDS), UK; K. Sagara, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan
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Part 1: Introduction
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Keiko Sagara and Ulrike Zeshan Open Access Download PDF |
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Part 2: European sign languages
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Liivi Hollman Open Access Download PDF |
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Inmaculada C. Báez-Montero and Ana María Fernández-Soneira Open Access Download PDF |
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Ritva Takkinen, Tommi Jantunen and Irja Seilola Open Access Download PDF |
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Klára Richterová, Alena Macurová and Radka Nováková Open Access Download PDF |
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Rannveig Sverrisdóttir and Kristín Lena Thorvaldsdóttir Open Access Download PDF |
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Part 3: Non-European sign languages
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Junhui Yang Open Access Download PDF |
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Nick Palfreyman Open Access Download PDF |
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Keiko Sagara Open Access Download PDF |
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