In the sign languages of the deaf some signs can meaningfully point toward things or can be meaningfully placed in the space ahead of the signer. Such spatial uses of signs are an obligatory part of fluent grammatical signing. There is no parallel for this in vocally produced languages. This book focuses on American Sign Language to examine the grammatical and conceptual purposes served by these directional signs and demonstrates a remarkable integration of grammar and gesture in the service of constructing meaning.
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Liddell's "...non-polemical and carefully reasoned argumentation is a welcome relief in an overheated field...The lucidity of presentation and the cogency of the new analyses lead the reader into exploring rich new territory, rather than into quarrels about assessments of established domains. In the end, I expect that readers of various theoretical persuasions will have a number of "aha experiences" as they slowly come to understand and appreciate [Liddell's] re-mapping of the territory. This is a major contribution to sign language linguistics, and to linguistics generally."
Dan I. Slobin, University of California, Berkeley, Language
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In sign languages of the deaf some signs can meaningfully point toward things or can be meaningfully placed in the space ahead of the signer. Such spatial uses of signs are an obligatory part of fluent grammatical signing. There is no parallel for this in vocally produced languages. This book focuses on American Sign Language to examine the grammatical and conceptual purposes served by these directional signs and demonstrates a remarkable integration of grammar and gesture in the service of constructing meaning.
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surrogate blend, past event space, depicting blend, pointer buoy, depicting verbs, weak genetic lines, unrealized inceptive form, nondirectional signs, mental space entity, vocally produced language, token blend, subject pronoun tag, dez elements, mental space entities, numeral morphemes, sideward path, list buoys, indicating verbs, semantic pole, numeral handshapes, folder sister, fragment buoy, mental space elements, current signer, blended space Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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surrogate blend, past event space, depicting blend, pointer buoy, depicting verbs, weak genetic lines, unrealized inceptive form, nondirectional signs, mental space entity, vocally produced language, token blend, subject pronoun tag, dez elements, mental space entities, numeral morphemes, sideward path, list buoys, indicating verbs, semantic pole, numeral handshapes, folder sister, fragment buoy, mental space elements, current signer, blended space Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Sign Language, New York, Mona Lisa, Florida Street, Gallaudet College, Gallaudet University Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- Grammar, Gesture, and Meaning in American Sign Language by Scott K. Liddell in Front Matter
- Laboratory Phonology 8: Varieties of Phonological Competence (Phonology and Phonetics, Vol. 4) by Conference in Laboratory Phonology 2002 on page 181
- Australian Sign Language (Auslan): An introduction to sign language linguistics by Trevor Johnston in Back Matter
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