TY - BOOK AU - Branchini,Chiara TI - On Relativization and Clefting: An Analysis of Italian Sign Language T2 - Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC] SN - 9781501500008 AV - HV2474 .B73 2014eb U1 - 419.45 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Mouton, KW - Deaf KW - Means of communication KW - Italy KW - Italian language KW - Relative clauses KW - Sign language KW - Cleft Constructions KW - Italian Sign Language KW - Relative Clauses KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; Open Access UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501500008 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781501500008.jpg ER -