Branchini, Chiara,

On Relativization and Clefting : An Analysis of Italian Sign Language / Chiara Branchini. - Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014] ©2015 - 1 online resource (360 p.) - Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC] ; 5 .

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notational conventions -- Sign language acronyms -- General Introduction -- Part I: Introducing Italian Sign Language (LIS) -- 1. Italian Sign Language and the Italian Deaf community -- 2. A syntactic outline of Italian Sign Language (LIS) -- Part II: On Relativization -- 3. Relativization strategies in spoken languages -- 4. Relative clauses in sign languages: A typological survey -- 5. Some methodological issues -- 6. An internally headed relative clause analysis for LIS relative structures -- Part III: On Clefting -- 7. Clefting in spoken languages -- 8. An analysis of LIS cleft constructions -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index

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9781501500008

10.1515/9781501500008 doi


Deaf--Means of communication--Italy.
Italian language--Relative clauses.
Sign language.
Cleft Constructions.
Italian Sign Language.
Relative Clauses.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.

HV2474 / .B73 2014eb

419.45