5. Word classes and word formation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents vii
4. Notational conventions ix
5. Sign language acronyms xi
6. 1. Introduction 1
7. I. Phonetics, phonology, and prosody
8. 2. Phonetics 4
9. 3. Phonology 21
10. 4. Visual prosody 55
11. II. Morphology
12. 5. Word classes and word formation 77
13. 6. Plurality 112
14. 7. Verb agreement 136
15. 8. Classifiers 158
16. 9. Tense, aspect, and modality 186
17. 10. Agreement auxiliaries 204
18. 11. Pronouns 227
19. III. Syntax
20. 12. Word order 245
21. 13. The noun phrase 265
22. 14. Sentence types 292
23. 15. Negation 316
24. 16. Coordination and subordination 340
25. 17. Utterance reports and constructed action 365
26. IV. Semantics and pragmatics
27. 18. Iconicity and metaphor 388
28. 19. Use of sign space 412
29. 20. Lexical semantics: Semantic fields and lexical aspect 432
30. 21. Information structure 462
31. 22. Communicative interaction 489
32. V. Communication in the visual modality
33. 23. Manual communication systems: evolution and variation 513
34. 24. Shared sign languages 552
35. 25. Language and modality 574
36. 26. Homesign: gesture to language 601
37. 27. Gesture 626
38. VI. Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics
39. 28. Acquisition 647
40. 29. Processing 687
41. 30. Production 711
42. 31. Neurolinguistics 739
43. 32. Atypical signing 762
44. VII. Variation and change
45. 33. Sociolinguistic aspects of variation and change 788
46. 34. Lexicalization and grammaticalization 816
47. 35. Language contact and borrowing 841
48. 36. Language emergence and creolisation 862
49. 37. Language planning 889
50. VIII. Applied issues
51. 38. History of sign languages and sign language linguistics 909
52. 39. Deaf education and bilingualism 949
53. 40. Interpreting 980
54. 41. Poetry 998
55. IX. Handling sign language data
56. 42. Data collection 1023
57. 43. Transcription 1045
58. 44. Computer modelling 1075
59. Indexes
60. Index of subjects 1103
61. Index of sign languages 1120
62. Index of spoken languages 1125