Information Structure in Sign Languages : Evidence from Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands

Information Structure in Sign Languages Evidence from Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands

This book presents a first comprehensive overview of existing research on information structure in sign languages. Furthermore, it is combined with novel in-depth studies of Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands. The book discusses how topic, focus, and contrast are marked in th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kimmelman, Vadim, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton [2019]
Series:Sign languages and deaf communities.
Subjects:
Dutch Sign Language.
Russian Sign Language.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009792108406719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Glossing conventions
  • List of sign languages and their abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Puzzles of information structure
  • 3. Methodological issues
  • 4. Topics in sign languages
  • 5. Quantitative analysis of topics in RSL and NGT
  • 6. Topic prominence
  • 7. Discourse topics and modality effects
  • 8. Focus in sign languages
  • 9. A quantitative study of focus in RSL and NGT
  • 10. Contrast
  • 11. Doubling
  • 12. A corpus study of question-answer pairs in NGT
  • 13. Sign languages and typology of information structure
  • Appendix 1. Stimuli for the study of focus in RSL and NGT
  • Appendix 2. Testing reliability of coding for manual prosodic markers
  • References
  • Subject Index
  • Notes

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