34.2461, Books: Person and Number: Veiga Busto

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Subject: 34.2461, Books: Person and Number: Veiga Busto

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Date: 04-Aug-2023
From: Katrin Stein [katrin.stein at degruyter.com]
Subject: Person and Number: Veiga Busto


Title: Person and Number
Subtitle: An Empirical Study of Catalan Sign Language Pronouns
Series Title: Sign Languages and Deaf Communities
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
                https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
Book URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110988956/html

Author: Raquel Veiga Busto
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110999662 Pages: 235 Price: Europe EURO 119.95
Electronic: ISBN: 9783110988956 Pages: 235 Price: Europe EURO 119.95
Abstract:

Person and number are two basic grammatical categories. However, they
have not yet been exhaustively documented in many sign languages. This
volume presents a thorough description of the form and interpretation
of person and number in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) personal pronouns.
This is the first book exploring together the two categories (and
their interaction) in a sign language.
Building on a combination of elicitation methods and corpus data
analysis, this book shows that person and number are encoded through a
set of distinctive phonological features: person is formally marked
through spatial features, and number by the path specifications of the
sign. Additionally, this study provides evidence that the same number
marker might have a different semantic import depending on the person
features with which it is combined.
Results of this investigation contribute fresh data to
cross-linguistic studies on person and number, which are largely based
on evidence from spoken language only. Furthermore, while this
research identifies a number of significant differences with respect
to prior descriptions of person and number in other sign languages, it
also demonstrates that, from a typological standpoint, the array of
distinctions that LSC draws within each category is not exceptional.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Written In: English (eng)

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