An exploration in the domain of time: From Yucatec Maya time gestures to Yucatec Maya Sign Language time signs

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements 1
4. Introduction: Demographic, sociocultural, and linguistic variation across rural signing communities 2
5. Part I. Rural signing varieties: Description, documentation, and fieldwork practice
6. Being a deaf white anthropologist in Adamorobe: Some ethical and methodological issues 27
7. Colour signs in two indigenous sign languages 53
8. Demarcating generations of signers in the dynamic sociolinguistic landscape of a shared sign-language: The case of the Al-Sayyid Bedouin 87
9. The Kata Kolok perfective in child signing: Coordination of manual and non-manual components 127
10. The survival of Algerian Jewish Sign Language alongside Israeli Sign Language in Israel 153
11. Signing in the Arctic: External influences on Inuit Sign Language 181
12. An exploration in the domain of time: From Yucatec Maya time gestures to Yucatec Maya Sign Language time signs 209
13. Deaf signers in Douentza, a rural area in Mali 251
14. Language ecological change in Ban Khor, Thailand: An ethnographic endangerment 277
15. Working with village sign language communities: Deaf fieldwork researchers in professional dialogue 313
16. Language index 405
17. Subject index 408